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Beeper couldn’t bring iMessage to Android — but it can still make a great chat app
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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I really, really don't understand what their business plan was. At it's core it used an exploit to trick Apple into thinking the messages were legit, did they not think Apple was going to close the loophole?
If Apple wanted iMessage on android it would be on Android. The only people bringing iMessage to Android is Apple, and anyone who figures a way around that is going to get ban-hammered by Apple.
Yeah I'm kind of puzzled by it too lol. I wish they had just kept their original solution of using Macs to run iMessage. Perhaps if they had gotten popular it still would have been blocked, but their whole strategy of being super open about it is odd. I suppose they thought they could fight it but evidently that wasn't the case.
Overall though I agree with the post, the app is really nice, the new android version is super slick and if they can get all the other connections working locally like they want, it'll be even better
They spent around $750,000 building that iMessage bridge...shame...However, there are many people self-hosting and still using iMessage on Android...that will, likely, get smacked down soon. I've used Beeper since the early Beta (a little over three years now) and I love it.