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Nothing pulls its iMessage app from the Play Store following privacy disaster (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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  • Nothing Chats, a rival to apps like Beeper and AirMessage, advertised itself as a secure platform for sending messages to iMessage users.
  • However, less than 24 hours after its launch, investigations into the app revealed that Nothing Chats logged every message in plain text and stored unencrypted data, including text messages, images, videos, and more, making it a significant privacy and security risk.
  • The company removed the app from the Play Store following these complaints, citing "several bugs" that need fixing.
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[–] danielfgom 60 points 1 year ago (17 children)

This is one of the many reasons I don't like Nothing. They are willing to put users at risk just so they can sell a few more phones.

Let me tell you Nothings strategy:

  1. Make an extract clone of the iPhone and put some gimmick lights on it to get attention.

  2. Make some airpod clones but make them see through to again attract attention

  3. Try to get iMessage working on Nothing 2 (screw you if you're on Nothing 1, Apple style) to reinforce the impression you're using an iPhone.

  4. If successful, price the Nothing 3 even higher to make it seem premium even though it's nothing special at all.

  5. Bring features to the Nothing 3, that the Nothing 2 and Nothing 1 will never get, even though there is no reason not to give it to them too.

  6. Repeat for Nothing 5 and every other Nothing ever. And eventually reach iPhone pricing.

In short, they are using their users just to get popular, become like Apple and get rich. Only to screw you over and make future phones super expensive.

Much like One Plus did. First you position yourself as flagship killer, and once you get a loyal following and deals with mobile carriers then you push the price sky high and give your supporters the middle finger.

Anyone who buys Nothing is a fool.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  1. Do some YouTube content as the CEO that makes you look like the nice underdog.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't Pete Lau the CEO of Nothing? He did the same thing with OnePlus. At least I don't think they didn't do invites for Nothing.

[–] flansyrup 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Carl Pei is the CEO of Nothing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I mixed them up, Pete Lau was also one of the big hats at OnePlus. I'm not sure what his title was, then. Oh, I checked up on it; Lau and Pei co-founded OnePlus, Pei was the CEO of OnePlus, but left OnePlus to found Nothing, which he is now the CEO of, leaving Pete Lau as the CEO of OnePlus.

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