• DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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    5 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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    11 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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      7 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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    8 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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    6 hours ago

    With ongoing enshittification in the quest for the lowest common denominator, why it might as well be mandatory to keep a 3310.

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    12 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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      5 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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        10 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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          8 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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            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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      10 hours ago

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