Well that didn’t take long…
• Beeper, the company behind iMessage for Android, faces an outage after Apple cuts off its access.
• The highly anticipated service, which brought blue bubble texts to Android, may have violated Apple’s terms of service.
• Beeper’s access to iMessage was revoked soon after its launch, raising questions about the feasibility of the service.
Even the CEO of Beeper said there was no way Apple could take them down without interrupting service for iPhone users.
I guess he was wrong!
Or, maybe he knew he was bluffing a little (I doubt he fully believed they couldn’t do this).
Like ad blocking, this looks like a cat/mouse game, and this dev looks like he really understands what Apple does. So it should be an interesting thing to watch.
Probably not a good idea to underestimate a multiple trillion dollar company