Honestly, I’m saying this seriously.
I really don’t understand why people keep asking Nothing to build separate apps for everything—File Manager, Phone, Messages, Music Player, Gallery, and so on.
Nothing is still a relatively small company. It has limited resources, limited manpower, limited time, and limited engineering capacity. So why should it spend those resources building apps that already exist—and in many cases, already work extremely well?
Take Google’s apps, for example.
Google has been building and maintaining its software ecosystem for years. Apps like Google Phone, Google Messages, Google Files, Google Photos, etc. are already highly mature, well-optimized, and available across a huge range of devices.
They work well on everything from relatively low-end phones to high-end devices, and Google has the resources and experience to deal with compatibility issues, bugs, telecom-related changes, Android updates, regulatory requirements, and countless other edge cases.
So what exactly would Nothing gain by spending a significant amount of its resources trying to recreate all of these apps?
And more importantly, what would Nothing actually gain from it at this stage?
People might say, “But Nothing should have its own apps for a more consistent and aesthetic UI.”
I understand that argument.
But honestly, aesthetic consistency should not be the priority right now.
If an excellent solution already exists, why force Nothing to spend its limited resources rebuilding the same thing from scratch?
And there’s another side to this.
Imagine Nothing actually starts replacing all these apps with its own alternatives. Initially, people will ask for them. But once those apps launch, the same people may start complaining about bugs, missing features, poor optimization, compatibility problems, battery usage, delayed updates, or certain edge cases not working properly.
And then Nothing will be criticised for that too.
That’s the irony.
People often underestimate how difficult it is to maintain an entire software ecosystem.
Nothing already has a much bigger challenge in front of it: building and improving Nothing OS itself.
Instead of spreading its resources across dozens of unnecessary apps, I would much rather see Nothing put those resources into making Nothing OS faster, more stable, better optimized, more consistent, and more polished.
That should be the priority.
And regarding Nothing Gallery—yes, Nothing has already introduced its own Gallery app. But honestly, is it better than Google Photos?
I personally don’t think so.
Google Photos is extremely mature, well optimized, packed with features, and deeply integrated with the Google ecosystem. It has been developed and refined for years.
So again, I don’t understand the obsession with replacing something that already works really well.
If Nothing were a much larger company—with the resources of Google, Samsung, or the major Chinese smartphone manufacturers—then sure, go ahead.
Build your own Phone app.
Build your own Messages app.
Build your own File Manager.
Build your own Gallery.
Build your own everything.
But Nothing isn’t at that stage yet.
Right now, I think Nothing should focus on what can actually differentiate it:
Nothing OS.
Software experience.
Optimization.
Stability.
Performance.
Long-term software support.
And overall polish.
Once Nothing becomes a much bigger company with significantly more resources, then it can make sense to build a complete ecosystem of first-party applications.
Until then, I’d rather see Nothing become really good at a few important things instead of trying to do everything at once.
Because at the end of the day, building an app is easy compared to building and maintaining a genuinely great software ecosystem.
That’s just my opinion.
