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Alex Blake

Nothing tried to outdo Apple’s RCS; instead it created a privacy disaster

A hand holding a phone that's running Nothing Chats.

Apple has announced that it will start supporting RCS in its Messages app after many years of holding out. But, shortly before Apple's revelation, phone maker Nothing launched an alternative solution – and it's turned out to be a privacy and security disaster.

Called Nothing Chats, in theory it would have allowed Android users to have an iMessage-like experience when talking to Apple users, with blue text bubbles in place of the green ones currently shown if someone is messaging from Android. It wouldn’t have replicated some other iMessage features, though, like editable texts.

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