The only thing holding me back from making a purchase… is the OS. I feel like Nothing should have their own unique Operating System, and not join forces with the typical Android Systems. What do you all think?
The Nothing Operating System
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RehanZahir Nothing OS provides a unique experience and is built over the android operating system. Building on android is nowadays a default choice considering the app ecosystem and the support which android and google provides. The openness of the android helps Nothing to achieve the goal it wants to achieve. In my opinion, it is better to stick to Android.
If Android is not your OS, then you’ll fall out like Huawei. Even though they make good phones, they aren’t part of the conversation because of the OS. Fewer apps mean fewer consumers.
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I guess you have seen the rumours that Nothing has been building its own ‘non-Android’ OS.
My suggestion would be to work with the makers of GrapheneOS and re-skin it as Nothing OS3 (a proper upgrade, not the snoozefest that is Android 15) to bring their privacy focused OS to the masses. People needn’t be worried about losing access to apps on the Play Store because GrapheneOS is built on the same foundations as Android, so Google built apps (notably Maps) can still be used in a ‘private space’ (sandboxed) away from the rest of a user’s apps so they can’t access most user data.
Google’s monopoly is slowly being dismantled in the EU, so why not lead the way?
There were, there were….. MeeGo, Windows, Blackberry OS, Ubuntu OS….. but hundreds of millions of CHEAP smartphones running Android have displaced these wonderful systems because it was not profitable for developers to write applications for them and fill the app stores. Unfortunately. Creating your own unique OS takes a lot of time and huge costs.
Nothing is a small start-up company, creating their own OS (even if based on Android without Google) and selling the volumes of phones they need to make a profit that allows them to grow would be more or less suicide in my opinion.
Android pretty much only works for the vast majority pf people due to the access of Google Play Services and Google Play Store, take this out and interest will simply crash and fall flat.
Take Huawei for example, the company has been huge here in Germany, especially in the years with their P20 and P30 lines of phones. Then they were hit with the Google ban and released phones without Google Play and later on their own OS, the could never recover from that to this very day here in Germany. Their marketshare fell from around 20% to 5% within a few years - not because the phones are bad, but people want to buy Android with full app support out of the box.
All “unique” systems, like Symbian or windows for smartphones, have died quite quickly. So I don’t think, it is right path for Nothing
MarcinG Or BlackBerry 10. I have used lot’s of phones especially in the mid 2000s through late 2010s. The Nokia N900 with Maemo, the Nokia E7 with Symbian3, then I switched to BlackBerry with BBOS 7 and had most BlackBerry phones with their BB10 OS - which was a great OS, very intuitive, fast and fun to use. Built to be used with gestures right from the start, the whole UX back than was more advanced compared to what Android offers today. Yet it failed, because developers never jumped on board. People wanted Netflix, Snapchat, Instagram and so on - but those were never officially ported to the OS. Then BlackBerry gave up and went with Android, looking back a number of BBRY enthusiasts think if they went with Android right away, they might still be around.
Inbetween I’ve also had a Nokia Lumia 1020 running Windows Phone, again I think the OS was very unique and intuitive in terms of UX, simple and efficient, yet in it’s own ways still eye catching. But it also failed due to missing app support from big developers.
I simply don’t believe Nothing as a still rather unknown and small company could pull off and ve successful with their complete own OS. Other who were much bigger and had much more ressources tried over the years and all failed. I mean Carl Pei just recently said they won’t even release a more compact Nothing Phone for the time being, as it most likely wouldn’t be profitable enough.
Do you even know what you are talking about?
RehanZahir have u not seen what happened to Huawei ? It’s very difficult now to compete with monopoly who is leading in the market share. They will try to crush obviously but it will take some time for setup.
Nothing already have a great clean android based os with customizations, so it will be wrong choise lo leave it and make something by yourself without google.
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Depends whether Nothing wants to follow in the footsteps of Huawei (why would they?), or make their own OS like Daniel Micay was able to with GrapheneOS.
Hii guys.
Can we get nothing own os ( like ios, Android)
What you guys think.
Also don’t hesitate to share what features do you guys think to get on nothing own os?
I think is no need when you have a good base and you can customizing it, it’s not the point to became like huawei with harmony os.
No need another Mobile OS, Its difficult for App developers to build/manage apps for new OS, It will take longer than usual,
hrry changed the title to Would Nothing develop their own OS? .
NarasimhanR I’d certainly recommend watching this https://nothing.community/d/19427-how-to-make-something-of-nothing-with-nothing, Carl touches on your question during in his talk.
Aniruddha_ICE used to be a big time BlackBerry owner back in the day. They had there own OS. That went down the pain and disappeared. Stick with android OS, but make very clean with no bloatware.
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