Nothing could have been Something.
Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled
Submitted 1 day ago by Toasted_Breakfast@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/29/nothing-phone-3a-lite-facebook-instagram-apps/
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obsolete@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 8 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.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 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.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.
Strider@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Nothing would be a great brand name if they were dedicated to making good phones without any bloatware.
Strider@lemmy.world 6 hours 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.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 11 hours ago
What do you mean? There are tons of shit names.
Strider@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Of course there are. But in this case the headline could be read:
No thing’s new:…
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
You were supposed to be the fucking CHOSEN ONE
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Don’t stake your hopes on anyone or any entity and you will never be disappointed
theparadox@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
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 great with the Glyph lights on the whole back, so of course they ditched it.
Not even Unihertz put Facebook garbage on their new Titan 2phone. And they also have an OLED on the back. A much bigger one. For a fraction of the price.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
So it is oficially a shitphone.
skeezix@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
FUCK THAT
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Oh good, one less phone to consider.
I would literally sooner intentionally install malware in my phone than anything from Meta.
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Nothing good will come of this.
xep@discuss.online 4 hours ago
Something
BeN9o@lemmy.world 4 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.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
ratchet mechanism of enshittification clicks
sommerset@thelemmy.club 14 hours ago
Wait they are monetizing this hard so soon? They barely launched the brand
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Shareholder pressure? Asshole CEO that masked who he was so far? Who can say. Seems to be the general trend now though.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours 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.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I still think it’s Motorola.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 19 hours 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours 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).
root@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This is a major bummer. I was kinda rooting for them to be the OEM that GOS would be working with.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 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.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
LMAO, lol even. Nothing 3 had shit hardware for the price, I was hoping it wouldn’t be them.
root@lemmy.world 7 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.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 16 hours ago
Looks like nothing I want to waste money on.
ultranaut@lemmy.world 23 hours 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.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 day ago
Just what the world needed
mr2meows@pawb.social 10 hours ago
i knew they was fake as shit bro
sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social 1 day ago
How much does a phone manufacturer get when they do these pre-inatalled app deals?
Toasted_Breakfast@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Apparently enough to destroy the reputation over it.
TheFogan@programming.dev 22 hours 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
mrfriki@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Not that reputation seems to matter a lot nowadays…
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
Probably more than what they get from selling it. That’s why sports are all hands on deck with gambling now and they don’t give a shit about the fans at all
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
With ongoing enshittification in the quest for the lowest common denominator, why it might as well be mandatory to keep a 3310.
sonofearth@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Privacy, user control and consent means nothing to these companies.
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Thanks for reporting it. I was eyeing a 3a phone, but no more.
localhorst@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Nothing’s new.
FTFY
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 23 hours 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.
Semester3383@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yes, come over to the dark side. I haven’t had any issues so far, except for the whiplash it is to go from YouTube I scrolled for hours every day to using NewPipe which takes two seconds to load a new video. It has made me very mindful of what I want to watch because from searching to watching I need to wait like 10 seconds.
Haven’t dipped my toes into banking apps though. Thats a frontier I’ll deal with when I get to it.
Semester3383@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Haven’t tried NewPipe yet. I currently use YouTube for specific videos, and I’m usually operating it from a private tab in my browser through a VPN, rather than the app. (So far I’m not getting served ads that way, although sometimes I have to skip to different countries to get around sign-in nags.)
Banking apps are the one thing that worries me. My prior bank didn’t allow rooted phones to be used for online banking; I haven’t made an attempt with my current phone. Given that I now live in a… Rather remote part of the country, access to online banking is fairly important.
tyrant@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Bummer, I thought nothing was a good brand.
foggy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So, the Nothing 3a, AKA The Something.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
how much do these places pay to make their apps into terminal cancer that cant be excised.
lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Wow they’ve fallen hard in the last 24 hours