OnePlus Employees Instructed Not To Respond To OS-Related Questions

Just a few days agone, OnePlus's CEO Pete Lau officially confirmed the "integration" between OnePlus and its parent company OPPO. This will be washed in order to be more efficient and provide faster firmware updates.

To retrieve, brands like OnePlus, Realme, Vivo, iQOO, OPPO are all part of a private Chinese multinational conglomerate, BBK Electronics. So, this integration between OnePlus and OPPO is like a handshake betwixt already related companies.

However, Lau said that OnePlus volition keep to operate independently, although information technology will be interesting to encounter what impact this integration will have on the software and other aspects of OnePlus phones.

OnePlus has always been criticized (in a manner) for copying OPPO's designs. And so, it is an obvious question whether OnePlus will use OPPO's ColorOS in the future or non.

Well, the answer lies in a leaked memo, shared by Evan Blass. This leaked memo reveals OnePlus has asked its employees not to respond to any OS-related queries that target the integration announcement.

Farther, the company has instructed its employees to respond to the Os-related questions as "We currently accept no updates to the operating systems. Please stay tuned on our official channels."

The leaked OnePlus memo also includes responses to the production line, strategy-related questions

Looking at the response, as per the leaked memo, it definitely raises some eyebrows. Because if OnePlus is sure that OxygenOS will continue to be serving the OnePlus phones exterior of China, and then why provide a vague response?

Instead of a vague response, OnePlus could take asked its employees to respond the aforementioned to OS-related queries. But taking a look at previous decisions of non providing timely updates, copying OPPO'due south designs, and now this instructed response shows that OnePlus is no longer a people's smartphone brand.

Further, the leaked OnePlus memo as well includes responses to questions related to Mr. Lau'south organizational function, the OnePlus-OPPO relationship, current product lines, time to come production strategy, and more than.

All these responses show OnePlus is all set to tackle the tough questions. And so, past the looks of it, if yous are a OnePlus fan, and are irked or excited about OnePlus and OPPO's integration, don't carp asking anything related to OS, at least.

GSM Arena notes that this might be a case of internal miscommunication since, the CEO of OnePlus, Pete Lau has already confirmed that OxygenOS is here to stay. You lot can become your hands on the leaked memo'due south image below.

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