Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

  • Toes♀
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    71 year ago

    I’ve never heard of that, that’s kinda hilarious and really helps them dodge a bullet.

    Apple has spent a significant amount of effort over creating a sense of elitism for using its products but that’s largely unique to the western world. Most of the world uses android devices by far.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Western World

      Did you mean mostly just the US?

      Android has almost 83% market share in the EU.

      An interesting fact while researching is that Iphone has over a 99% market share in North Korea. I assumed that the data might be thrown off by one individual maybe owning like ten thousand Iphones… but surprisingly NK is more connected then I thought with like 7M registered cellular devices