A design language with intent
Within the interview, Hoyss referred again to the beginnings of Nothing OS and the way from the beginning the concept was to create an working system that sits on high of Android, however that cuts by all of the fats. For example, Hoyss used the present state of Android and the way its homepage has primarily develop into an commercial listing of all the corporate logos for every app you’ve got put in.
You’ve got a web page system the place you scroll by mainly logos of firms…If you happen to check out an app, it is mainly the emblem of an organization. And that is your ‘dwelling display.’ If you wish to embody the phrase dwelling into an OS then it is far more than only a web page with logos.
Holding this in thoughts, for Nothing OS 2.0, the objective is for it to be extra private and that it brings choices that your smartphone already has out of the field to the foreground as an alternative of you as person having to dig round for it. That is to be achieved on a system stage, much like Google Pixel’s Ambient Compute capabilities, however with its personal Nothing spin.
Hoyss additional acknowledged that Nothing OS is not going to make any “overpromises” sooner or later and that as an alternative they plan to create “secure, stunning merchandise.” He does not elaborate on the plan for Nothing or the place they intend it to go sooner or later, nevertheless it’s evident that there’s one. Sadly, particulars on a launch date for Nothing OS 2.0 are being stored underneath lock and key past the obscure promise that it’s going to arrive someday this summer season.
