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.
Jeez, they didn’t even try.
They beat Google’s record of killing a product!
Sorry, so the privacy concerns turned out to be WORSE than YouTubers had mentioned.
Jfc wow.
I just don’t get the fascination from android users wanting iMessage. Use whatsapp or signal etc to get through to your apple friends or sms failing that. If you really want that blue bubble just save up for an iPhone.
It’s not for Android users to use iMessage. It’s for iMessage users to use Android.
Android users don’t care about iMessage
A good used iPhone isn’t even that expensive.
I dunno, something something bubbles.
All of that for nothing lmao.
This is just embarrassing.
All of that for nothing
I see what you did there 😉
Shady company abuses analytics SDK to log user messages?
shocked pikachu face
Jesus did that even last a day?
I like nothing a lot. But it seems that their desire to get publicity from this and prove a point really created a mess.
Suggest that they wait until Apple supports the encrypted rcs standard.
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
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
It’s an iPhone for tech-fixated teenagers who think it’s cool to hate iPhones
Profoundly is right. it’s not that it had weak encryption or some niche exploit. It sent all your data, every last bit of it over unencrypted http. Plain text data transfer. It’s nuts.
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.
They got the PR they wanted.
*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
I’m sorry but…LMAO! 😂