• LWD@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    A reverse assembled solution to implementing iMessage on devices that aren’t made by Apple has stopped working? I’m not surprised… I’d be more surprised if it kept working.

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      11 months ago

      To be fair, I would totally believe Apple changed something small for the sole purpose of breaking iMessage interoperability with Android.

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        11 months ago

        I would be surprised if they didn’t have it ready to go and flipped the switch once they felt it would hurt the apps reputation the most.

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        11 months ago

        Right now, it feels like a coin flip about whether Apple is behind it or not. I noticed, when I tested out the app, that it rapidly updated twice over the course of a single day.

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      11 months ago

      The tech is pretty interesting but the business is sus…It’s kind of like selling fake admissions to a club and calling that a startup.

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          11 months ago

          The product Beeper is selling is essentially access to “blue bubbles” and iMessage without having to pay the price of admission (i.e., owning an iDevice and working with Apple). That’s the part that’s shady and sus. What they are paying or saving on infrastructure cost is irrelevant - they are basically still running a counterfeit operation, doesn’t matter what their costs are.

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          11 months ago

          The push servers are required for beeper Mini, because it acts as a gateway between GCM and ANP.

          Beeper Cloud uses Mac Minis, and Beeper posted the software on github so you can self host it.

          The two apps work very differently.