• DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Not at all surprising for anyone who followed this company for a while. They’ve pretty much been all marketing. The phones are far from what they are advertised to be. Hell, it’d be great if they at least worked properly.

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    18 hours ago

    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.

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      14 hours ago

      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.

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    15 hours ago

    I thought nothing was going to be the OG oneplus, bringing flagship killers at decent prices. Not the case, I got the first ear ones, had heaps of issues, no help from support and they stopped updating them. Years go by, looking for a watch, try the CMF watch by nothing, I’ve had nothing but connection issues and bugs and a dislike for the weird lack of customisation (can’t make a timer widget unless its one of the set times they choose? Why??) It’s put me off ever getting a phone by nothing.

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    18 hours ago

    This is a major bummer. I was kinda rooting for them to be the OEM that GOS would be working with.

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      12 hours ago

      Before reading this, it would have never occurred to me that anyone even considered this possibility. And thank God it’s not happening. Their phones are abysmal dogshit.

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        17 hours ago

        Oh? TIL. I guess if they’ve ruled out fairphone and nothing is as bad as you say, maybe it’s a larger player. Can’t think of many other small ones.

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          15 hours ago

          Moto seems like a contender. Or one of the Chinese players like Oneplus or Xiaomi, they are also looking for an edge over the market.

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            12 hours ago

            Personally I think it’ll be one of the bigger Chinese OEMs. Their phones have gotten a lot better recently, and security is pretty much the only thing they’re lacking. A move like this would perfectly fit some of their strategies.

            We’ll see what happens. I’m enjoying analyzing the market to speculate which company it may be.

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    1 day ago

    Oh good, one less phone to consider.

    I would literally sooner intentionally install malware in my phone than anything from Meta.

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      17 hours ago

      Shareholder pressure? Asshole CEO that masked who he was so far? Who can say. Seems to be the general trend now though.

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        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.

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      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.