Beeper Mini made Android users blue bubbles. Apple shut it down after only a few days.
    • Keith@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Text messaging market in EU is totally different from in the United States. This is because US texting was cheap always— not so with the EU.

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
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      7 months ago

      They're not gatekeepers in Europe because nobody uses iMessage over there. Their predominance in the US market is outside of the new EU laws.

  • soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id
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    7 months ago

    So many of these comments are pulling up the other encrypted alternatives that you can use between iPhone and other platforms. But few seem to actually be addressing the problem of actually getting other non-tech savvy people to use this stuff because they don't actually see a problem with what they have.

    You may not realize it, but not everyone is thinking about whether or not their messages are encrypted. My own family looks at me like "🤨" when I try to convince them to use something encrypted, like I'm trying to hide a crime or something. And I've only gotten my parents to use other services (WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger with end to encryption turned on) by digging my heels to get them to stop using SMS. I still haven't convinced my almost 16-year-old sister (she doesn't really message me that much anyway. But she's in that phase where she thinks she's all independent, and her first places are the simple stuff she knows).

    Might I add that digging your heels at every attempt for someone to use SMS isn't socially acceptable. I've only done it because they're family and I love them

  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    7 months ago

    Serious question since I don't use iMessage whatsoever, what's going on with the iMessage stuff? Seems like multiple companies recently have tried to make apps that connect to iMessage, but there's nothing I've heard about Apple opening that up. Did something happen for this to suddenly pop up more frequently?

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Pretty much it's the Beeper devs and one other. But the initial setups were really nothing more than using a Mac on the backend with a an adapter to Android.

      Beeper and one (maybe two) other were pretty effective at it.

      Beeper Mini is a different thing altogether. It uses a service to translate ANP (Apple Notification Protocol?) to GCM (Google Cloud Messaging), which are the respective notification handlers.

      The Android client is able to comm directly with iMessage servers, unlike the original Beeper and the other ones.

  • cole@lemdro.id
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    7 months ago

    not surprising, but super disappointing. Beeper Mini was a dream come true