In the off chance you haven’t heard: OPPO, OnePlus, realme, and vivo are under one company, BBK. For years, the companies worked almost completely separately from each other. But over the last few months, those big walls are starting to fall down.
A few years ago, OnePlus phones sold in China dropped OxygenOS support and instead came with OPPO’s ColorOS. Now, this move will be implemented globally. What’s worse, realme UI will also be dropped and will also be replaced with ColorOS.
The move, unsurprisingly, is for cost-cutting. Having three different interfaces meant three different software teams. Consolidating all three into one will significantly make development cheaper.
realme users should feel right at home with ColorOS since they are almost exactly the same. But we can’t say the same for OnePlus users. As you know, they pride themselves on having a very unique interface, but that wouldn’t be the case anymore.
On the upside, they did the right job of choosing ColorOS to keep. OPPO did a great job of maintaining, refining, and improving its in-house interface.