Nothing Chats brings iMessage to Android, nevertheless it stays to be see when it is going to be again.
Nothing Chats beta has been pulled from the Google Play Store resulting from “several bugs” and, in accordance with a report by textual content.com, alleged safety considerations as nicely.
Within only a week of its launch, Nothing has eliminated its Nothing Chats Beta app from the Google Play Store, citing that the corporate is delaying the launch till additional discover resulting from a number of bugs current within the present app.
We’ve eliminated the Nothing Chats beta from the Play Store and might be delaying the launch till additional discover to work with Sunbird to repair a number of bugs.We apologise for the delay and can do proper by our customers.
— Nothing (@nothing) November 18, 2023
For these uninitiated, the app guarantees to permit Nothing Phone 2 customers to speak utilizing iMessage with iPhone customers, regardless of being on Android. However, so as to take action, the Nothing Chats app partnered with Sunbird, which requires one to signal into their Apple ID to allow these options.
Additionally, it was additionally revealed by Kishan Bagaria, founding father of Texts.com, that the Sunbird app isn’t utilizing HTTPS; as a substitute, the “credentials are sent over plaintext HTTP.” Bagaria additional added that Sunbird’s “backend is running an instance of BlueBubbles, which doesn’t support end-to-end encryption yet.” However, Sunbird too has despatched detailed responses to Bagaria, one in every of which refutes the priority of sending credentials over plaintext HTTP.
texts group took a fast take a look at the tech behind nothing chats and came upon it’s extraordinarily insecureit’s not even utilizing HTTPS, credentials are despatched over plaintext HTTP
backend is operating an occasion of BlueBubbles, which doesn’t help finish-to-finish encryption but pic.twitter.com/IcWyIbKE86
— Kishan Bagaria (@KishanBagaria) November 17, 2023
Sunbird stated, “The HTTP is only used as part of the one-off initial request from the app notifying the back-end of the upcoming iMessage connection iteration that will follow via a standalone communication channel. From the start, Sunbird has been focused on security.”
Nothing is but to launch an official response to Texts.com’s detailed publish concerning the Nothing Chats app.
With that stated, shortly after Nothing launched the Chats app, Apple introduced that it was lastly going to start out supporting RCS for higher textual content-primarily based dialog with Android units—supporting options like sending excessive-decision media recordsdata, learn receipts, typing indicators, and extra. RCS performance is predicted to come back to iPhones subsequent yr, and it’ll proceed to work alongside iMessage, and this transfer will get Android customers an official different to apps like Sunbird, and now, utilizing these apps could now not be a necessity.
