Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android | TechCrunch
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Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage,

UPDATE: Beeper, through their Twitter account, is saying that they’re working on it and “hope to have good news to share soon”:

Work continues to fix the issue causing the Beeper Mini outage. We know how hard this has been for those who loved using Beeper Mini, and we’re extremely sorry for the inconvenience. We are feeling good, though, and hope to have good news to share soon.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
    51·
    11 months ago

    Apple flexing their anti-competitive muscles again.

    The EU will protect us, right… Right?

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      No, because iMessage isn’t a gatekeeper in the EU. It’s comparable to Signal in size, depending on the country.

      Hopefully with Apple adopting RCS they fix the spec to include e2e encryption. At the moment only Google’s proprietary client does RCS with their own encryption.