Beeper Mini is the iMessage for Android app we’ve been waiting for
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Beeper Mini is a new app that brings iMessage to Android. When you text your friends with iPhones, you'll show up as a blue bubble.

Personally I don't care about this since apple is adopting rcs next year. But its a great thing for people who want iMessage.

  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    Yes. Hopefully they'll continue to maintain the mautrix bridges they already have.

    Also it's sad to see Beeper misusing the term open source for the source available SSPL [1]. Beeper is free not to use an open source license. But an open source "license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor" [2], so it's misleading to call their demo [3] open source.

    I do believe supporting the different messaging services client side could be a better experience than relying on a server to translate between different protocols.

    [1] https://blog.opensource.org/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-source-license/

    [2] https://opensource.org/osd/

    [3] https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush