Carl Pei tries to justify Nothing Chats after Apple’s RCS mic-drop second

A day after Nothing introduced it’s bringing iMessage compatibility to the Nothing Telephone 2 with Nothing Chats, Apple went forward and dropped the RCS bomb. Basically, iPhones will now help RCS messaging on iMessage. This implies Android customers and iPhone customers will now have the ability to securely use trendy messaging options like learn receipts, typing indicators, and message reactions. Most significantly, customers may even have the ability to share high-resolution images and movies between Android telephones and iPhones. This nearly defeats the aim of getting a separate chat app like Nothing Chats for iMessage conversations between Android and iOS.

Commenting on Apple’s announcement, Nothing CEO Carl Pei posted on X (previously Twitter), saying, “Nice determination! Good for customers, competitors, and innovation. Hats off to the EU, telcos, Google, and most of all to Apple.”

The query on everybody’s thoughts is — what does this imply for Nothing’s newly introduced endeavor? A consumer requested Pei on X if Nothing Chats continues to be within the pipeline, to which the manager replied, “Yeah, whereas that is nice, it doesn’t remedy the blue bubble vs. inexperienced bubble situation.”

Even so, Pei’s justification for the utility of Nothing Chats appears a bit weak if a coloring system is all that it’ll have going for it. Sure, it could function a stopgap for Nothing Telephone 2 customers till Apple previously implements RCS in iMessage, however after that, it might simply grow to be a pointless resolution to a non-existent downside. My colleague Dhruv Bhutani already identified how Nothing Chats is backed by an unsustainable enterprise mannequin, however Apple simply grounded it even earlier than it might take flight.