Jeez, they didn’t even try.
Sorry, so the privacy concerns turned out to be WORSE than YouTubers had mentioned.
Jfc wow.
Jeez, what a week of headlines. I swear it started as Nothing will unveil iMessage for Android. Then shifted to Apple with adopt RCS. The Nothings BlueMessage getting taken down from the play store…to today it is getting killed entirely. This has got to be the shortest lifespan of a product for Android from initial public announcement to death blow.
They beat Google’s record of killing a product!
Is Beeper just as bad? If so why isn’t it getting slammed like Nothing has? Beeper app has been around a lot longer…
I imagine because it isn’t Beeper’s primary purpose and isn’t something that’s pushed as the whole reason to get it.
I’ve just found iMessage to be pointless on it anyway. Outside of “look I can send an iMessage from an Android phone” it’s like okay it’s linked to an email instead of a phone number and no one uses texting anyway.
That was a hard headline to read without context of what “Nothing” is.
It didn’t make sense to me at all until this comment
It’s an iPhone for tech-fixated teenagers who think it’s cool to hate iPhones
I have to share this every time I see Nothing Phone posted. Reddit’s Spez is the biggest investor. Do you trust him with your cell phone? He’s second to only Google Ventures. I’m not interested in giving that man any more money than the ad revenue I generate on Reddit.
I still have no idea after reading the article what a messaging/chat app on the android ecosystem has anything to do with iMessage.
Same lol I’ve never heard of either Nothing or Sunbird and I’m not sure what an iMessage bridge is.
But I think I know enough to know that http and no end-to-end encryption is bad
Thread title sounds like gibberish.
Nobody saw that coming…
*User privacy and security
I forgot that part in the title and idk how to edit it😬
that’s the neat part. you can’t.
i thought nothing was a regular word and not the phone company at first lol
Goes to show, say what you will about Apple keeping a lock on iMessage. However at lease iMessage hasn’t been blatantly exposed to the internet by careless actions from Apple.
iCloud/AppleId has never been “hacked”. Only users with shitty passwords that someone guessed.
Also any time you hear about malware in an App Store, it’s on Android, and not the Apple App Store. I, for one, don’t look forward to the time when they’re forced to open up that “walled garden”.
Sideloading Will never be that easy on iOS like the app store. Even on Android, you have to enable developer options and jump through hoops to sideload. If you don’t want to sideload, don’t.
They got the PR they wanted.
And nothing just lost all brand respect from me.
And nothing was lost (sorry I had to 🫠)
They never had any from me in the first place.
All of that for nothing lmao.
This is just embarrassing.
All of that for nothing
I see what you did there 😉
Essentially what happened here is there was no actual product. They had inside info that Apple was making this move and figured they would get some free PR from it. And idiot Youtubers were dumb enough to give it to them.
Not to mention the way they wanted to accomplish this killed privacy. Insanely invasive. Nobody should trust Nothing after this, if somehow you still did. And stop listening to any Youtubers who happily carried their water this week.
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me… the app was released and available on the Google Play store, the person who discovered the insecurities did so by evaluating the app and discovered thousands of actual customer records which were stored insecurely and accessible via public URL strings.
Hint for the slow folks…they knew there was massive security flaws lol. Its a feature not a bug. The point is Nothing had no care what the app was. They put out Sunbirds app under their name as a beta app knowing it would only be up for a few days before Apple announced.
All signs point to Sunbird being actual malware at this point- and, I mean, their motivations were a coin toss from the beginning. I can’t imagine hitching your company’s reputation (not to mention customer security) to something so blatantly sketchy. Not surprised at all by this news.
I do agree with you, something makes me thing though that if the intention was to be malware then why not at least try and obfuscate it for a while… Day one, giant privacy risk… They could have at least pretended for a few days right haha