Wow, nothing is a shit name, for one. On the other hand, this being reported on a website that requires tracking consent to view. I want a new Timeline.
Nothing would be a great brand name if they were dedicated to making good phones without any bloatware.
The misinterpretation with the name nothing to the regular word nothing in headlines and everything is really bad, especially since the internet is global and for countries who never heard the name.
Some people think they’re really clever with their company name and cause lots of confusion with it for their narrow mindedness.
You were supposed to be the fucking CHOSEN ONE
Don’t stake your hopes on anyone or any entity and you will never be disappointed
There are only those companies for whom the incentives to betray you aren’t yet high enough. Either the incentives become high enough for the chosen company to betray you, or the incentives become enough for another company with enough money to buy the chosen company and betray you…or bury the chosen company in the hopes that you’ll open yourself to being betrayed or exploited by the other company.
Welcome to unfettered/unregulated capitalism aka the natural end result that capitalism pushes society towards.
Nothing already lost me when they put a tiny, useless OLED screen on the back of their flagship and called it innovation. They had something really great with the Glyph lights for two generations, so of course they ditched that technology completely.
Not even Unihertz put Facebook garbage on their new Titan 2 phone. And they also have an OLED on the back. A much bigger one. For a fraction of the price.
Welp, and some people hypothesized Nothing would be the secret manufacturer that GrapheneOS works with. Hope not, I’m not sure what Nothing would get out of it with these kinds of actions.
I still think it’s Motorola.
I’d like that. I’ve enjoyed being on Motorola for the last few phones. Good, serviceable, middle-of-the-road priced phones and a company that doesn’t think so highly of themselves that the majority of the price amounts to a prestige tax. (ahem…Apple and Samsung)
Isn’t Motorola’s mobile division (with the exception of the PDA hardware acquired by Zebra Technologies) owned by Lenovo full stop?
I would imagine that might lead to issues later down the line for the Graphene team (although I’d love to be proven wrong).
I’m not sure what problems that would lead to. Lenovo is a big part of the reason I think it’s Motorola.
Yes it is. If you mean that becaise of china, I don’t know why it would. Blossoming countries tend to open up. China is starting to blossom.
Ratchet mechanism of enshittification: click
I once had a phone with uninstallable Facebook bullshit and it is more than mildly infuriating. Fuck Nothing, they are dead to me now. This is unforgivable.
Just what the world needed
Oh good, one less phone to consider.
I would literally sooner intentionally install malware in my phone than anything from Meta.
Looks like nothing I want to waste money on.
How much does a phone manufacturer get when they do these pre-inatalled app deals?
Apparently enough to destroy the reputation over it.
Not that reputation seems to matter a lot nowadays…
Isn’t that one of the big problems?
Reputation doesn’t mean shit.
Everyone knows Meta is terrible. Everyone knows Alphabet’s and Google is terrible. Everyone knows fucking Disney is terrible. Everyone knows that the fucking Republican Party is terrible. Everyone knows that the Democratic Party is terrible.
Everyone knows all of this shit is terrible, and nobody stops giving them money.
Probably more than what they get from selling it. That’s similar to why sports are all hands on deck with gambling now and they don’t give a shit about the fans at all
Bruh. This is truly surprising. I feel like for a phone like this, it must be like 90% of the target market that would hate this? Seems like an unimaginably bad business decision. Of course, if FB gave them enough money, then this is kinda like taking a bribe to stop competing.
They are pivoting to a new customer base, people who are vaguely aware privacy is a concern but aren’t capable of figuring out nothing phones are a scam.
FUCK THAT
Wait they are monetizing this hard so soon? They barely launched the brand
Shareholder pressure? Asshole CEO that masked who he was so far? Who can say. Seems to be the general trend now though.
So I’ve been holding onto my OnePlus 6T because it was the closest thing to a Nexus after they destroyed it and migrated it into the Pixel program.
I’ve been eyeballing Nothing for a while now, but it looks like before I could even get one, they’re already off the market for me.
So, the Nothing 3a, AKA The Something.
Nothing’s new.
FTFY
