ah too bad… I got one for me and one for my wife earlier this year, we liked them… but these would be our last based on this crap
how much do these places pay to make their apps into terminal cancer that cant be excised.
Wait they are monetizing this hard so soon? They barely launched the brand
Disappointing.
I bought one of their phones nearly a year ago. The UI was… Not great, IMO, but I was able to re-skin it. The SD card slot was the biggest reason for me. Well, now I know taht my next phone is going to be a Pixel with Graphene installed.
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.
Thanks for reporting it. I was eyeing a 3a phone, but no more.
Can they even be removed with adb?
I’m sure they can, it’s just sad to see they’re giving such a sleazy company a spot on every phone no matter what. Also, who knows what type of system access Facebook has been given to track us. They track people even if they don’t have a fb acct.
Surely this can still removed with ADB?
You were supposed to be the fucking CHOSEN ONE
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.
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.
Ratchet mechanism of enshittification: click
Thanks for Nothing!
Good ass burn.
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.
What do you mean? There are tons of shit names.
Nothing would be a great brand name if they were dedicated to making good phones without any bloatware.
Nothing’s new.
FTFY
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.
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.
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)
