• @sidebro@lemmy.zip
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    05 months ago

    Gotta be possible to remove with root permissions, no chance I’d let that spyware sit on my phone

  • FireWire400
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    5 months ago

    Besides the point but man, that phone looks hideous.

    I like the look of the 3a, but this one just looks lazy.

  • @ultranaut@lemmy.world
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    05 months ago

    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.

    • Marshezezz
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      5 months ago

      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

      • @TheFogan@programming.dev
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        05 months ago

        To me I’m most supprised on this one, I mean, wasn’t the whole point of the nothing to be a phone that doesn’t distract you as much, lets you stay in the moment.

        what the hell kind of partnership is this. This is as dumb as say an electric vehicle company partnering up with climate change deniers

          • @TheFogan@programming.dev
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            05 months ago

            Well yes or nazi’s, but for the most part having a stance on Nazi-ism wasn’t a driving factor for many to purchase EV’s. People bought EV’s specifically because that’s one of the main advantages of an EV, is they were expected to be better for the environment.

            Why I point that out in the nothing phone. It’s selling point was the glyphs that let you roughly know what messages were coming in on your phone while it is face down. So in short you could set your phone down and know if your wife was texting you with an emergency, while not hearing a ping and turning away from your friends to see that you have enough energy for candy-crush. IE literally the exact opposite of facebooks marketing

            which you know is literally the opposite of facebooks marketing plan.

        • @bizarroland@lemmy.world
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          05 months ago

          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.

  • @Strider@lemmy.world
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    05 months ago

    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.

      • @Strider@lemmy.world
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        05 months ago

        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.

        • Cethin
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          05 months ago

          I think you missed it. “Nothing is a shit name” can be read as “there are no shit names.”

          (Unless I misread your comment and missed something.)

  • @ook@discuss.tchncs.de
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    05 months ago

    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 od actions.

      • Hemingways_Shotgun
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        05 months ago

        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)

      • Truscape
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        05 months ago

        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).

  • calm.like.a.bomb
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    05 months ago

    Nothing says ‘I’m shitty’ more than naming yourself ‘Nothing’. Oh, wait, using meta/facebook makes you even shittier.

    • altkey (he\him)
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      05 months ago

      That does sound edgy and pointless, like x dot com, but it fits their focus on visual style and branding over everything else.

    • @CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world
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      Nothing says ‘I’m shitty’ more than naming yourself ‘Nothing’.

      I mean…that’s an odd take. Don’t know how someone could be so upset over the name of a company, but hey let that anger out.

      Oh, wait, using meta/facebook makes you even shittier.

      No arguments there though.

    • @herrvogel@lemmy.world
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      05 months ago

      I mean I am pretty happy with my nothing phone. It came with a pretty minimal stock android that runs on hardware that’s quite good for what I paid. Despite the shitty name that people have indeed made fun of, the phone’s been pretty good so far.

  • @CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world
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    05 months ago

    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.