The IT Nerd

You might recall that last week, Nothing announced that it was going to bring iMessage compatibility to its phones via a partnership with a company called Sunbird. That was all fine and dandy until Nothing was forced to pull the app that brought this compatibility due to security concerns. Specifically, iMessages which are supposed to be end to end encrypted were visible in plain text. Which is of course a #fail. The knock on effect of that appears to be crippling for Sunbird:

Users in the r/Sunbird subreddit showed a notification where Sunbird explains that it has paused usage of the app “for now” as it investigates concerns – the same phrasing was sent via Nothing Chats today, but to Sunbird users on November 18.

Honestly, I don’t think that Sunbird will ever see the light of day again as a functioning company. I say that because if their service actually worked and was actually secure, Apple would likely blow them out of the water the first chance they got. Either via changing iMessage in some way to break what Sunbird was doing, or by suing them out of existence. Likely the latter. Even if you take that out of the equation, nobody on planet Earth will ever use Sunbird’s services again because of this security fiasco. Thus this company is dead as disco.

And what if you’re Nothing. They did a bit of a Hail Mary to break into the US smartphone market by partnering with Sunbird, and it blew up in epic fashion in their face. You have to wonder where they go from here as this fiasco affect them too.

And meanwhile at Apple Park, Tim Cook will be enjoying his Thanksgiving dinner knowing that Apple’s walled garden is still intact.

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