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Ali Fakhruddin

The problem starts here..

Example: OnePlus File Manager and Files from Google and other apps

When OnePlus started introducing their own apps while there was already equivalent Google apps.

“THEY NEVER MADE THE GOOGLE APPS UNINSTALLABLE , SO YOU ARE NOW STUCK WITH TWO APPS THAT DO THE SAME THING. HENCE DUPLICATE APPS.”

Now imagine lots of duplicate apps like this.

Do you get my point now? 🤷🏻

I have nothing against Nothing styled apps fyi. But once you get it. Will they make the Google apps uninstallable. That’s the big ?.

I have no problem using Nothing styled apps provided for example Nothing gallery app, if they have Google photos Integration, iCloud integration (No iPhone user is ready to switch to Nothing OS if Nothing’s Gallery app doesn’t have iCloud integration to retrieve photos from iCloud)

iPhone users are trying out Nothing OS because all of their data from apple can be transferred to Google apps seamlessly.

Now imagine there was no Google Photos and Nothing Gallery had no iCloud integration. They have to do all that manually now. You get what I’m saying.

Again I’m telling, I have no problem using Nothing styled apps. It should work just as seamlessly as Google apps and equivalent uninstallable Google apps that you’re going to replace with Nothing Styled apps. 🤷🏻

      hexagonal707x That’s my point exactly. If Nothing can maintain that consistency of supporting the apps and all of the major integration, then there’s no problem. I am an ex iOS user and using Nothing P2 at the moment. For me the transition was easy coz everything was connected to Google. So I get what you mean. Hence I’m saying if they CAN, there’s no harm. But ? Is Will they?

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          Tush_Jagtap Nothing UI fluidity is unmatched 👏

          If Nothing UI appears to be fluid, fine. But I see no potential to call them benchmark. Probably a matter of opinion. The main thing is that they first take care of existing weak points before starting developing more native apps. Nobody needs a second “Nothing Chats”.

          Ali Fakhruddin So if the company can, why not?

          If… but they obviously can’t at present. It will be interesting to see if and when nothing will also increasingly focus on its own apps

              hexagonal707x That’s a flawed comparison. No one’s talking about third-party apps here. Take Samsung or Apple or even OnePlus’ example. All their native apps (Phone, Gallery, Clock, Calculator, Messages etc) have a coherent design language.

                  𝐚𝐧𝐦𝐨𝐥 Man I have no problems with Nothing Apps. You all will be the same people who are going to complain when Nothing doesn’t update their system apps in the future. Just saying 🤷🏻.

                  Google apps get updates frequently.

                    I think Google gallery is bit annoying to use

                    i dont like it anyway

                    I’m keenly excited to see Nothing Gallery App

                    rest apps are just fine no need for another apps , Google apps are just fine .

                    adbo Yeah…please ignore the OP…

                    The visual cohesiveness of the UI is one of the reasons I bought the nothing phone and no major android vendor, including Google, really focus on visually pleasing, at least to my eye, design in this area.

                    Weirdly, Samsung is probably the closest; OneUI’s dialer, text and calendar apps actually look good (shame about the rest of oneui).

                    Nothing extending the design language of nothingOS further to additional core android apps is likely what will end up keeping me brand loyal.

                      I have an idea that could please everyone.

                      Since multiple Google apps cannot be uninstalled to have Google Play certification, Nothing can develop it’s own apps, but make them uninstallable if they fulfill a similar role to a stock Google app that cannot be uninstallable.

                      They could ask the user during the initial setup if they want the available Nothing apps to be downloaded (hypothetical Gallery app, Dialer app, Messaging app, etc.) and then allow them to be uninstalled later if the user wishes.

                      I personally would use mostly Nothing apps for the feeling of visual cohesion across the entire OS.

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                      Remi F hell some people want the design, even without having a Nothing phone.. I already have NDot as a system font on my Samsung and the Nothing colors set as a theme.. if they were to release their apps, and make them non exclusive… they’d be getting that name out there even further

                        adbo Is it possible for that to happen the other way around? So if nothing apps become good enough and popular enough that the majority of user would prefer Nothings own apps that those become the default? Or is that a limitation of android?

                            Rmck066 I would prefer nothing apps 24/7, the company is fire as hell

                              hexagonal707x In fact, it is better to have apps by default that give us the feeling of “Nothing” even in apps

                                Agree with the opinion. But some people over here is crying loudly for nothing styles appa. Most important thing they have to do is to polish the current nothing appa and the OS itself. Still the pictures from the device is too much unreliable and the image processing is too much digital in look. The OS needs more refinement for the performance and so n so. Instead of already available Google apps they could release a community app of nothing 🤷.

                                adbo If I could wish the impossible then Nothing should go the Apple route. They should just create their own complete OS and apps. But that’s quite impossible for now. Best way to go with it would be expanding the teams and hiring a lot of freelancers, create OS and apps, after freelancers and Nothing teams are done with the job then with the remaining team they should maintain the apps.

                                But it’s easy to say than do idk how it’ll work practically

                                  hexagonal707x if it is so then nothing should have given stock android instead of nothing os, because their os is based on NDOT font and google apps are very fake or don’t match with nothing os, we are fan of nothing so I want nothing apps if you like google apps you can go with pixel device

                                      adbo There’s only two apps. To be fair I’m not on a nothing phone right now so it’s prob not showing cos I don’t have the right hardware to run them.