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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.

  • @[email protected]English
    54•1 year ago

    Apple flexing their anti-competitive muscles again.

    From locking down the OS to proprietary charging and a staunch opposition to right to repair, their track record has been nothing but anti-consumer for the last decade and a half.

    And the worst part is that they’ve gotten away with it for so long and so often that they managed to inspire Android device manufacturers (ahem…Samsung) to follow in their footsteps. Someone really ought to step in and break up the company, Microsoft anti-trust style.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      Apple flexing their anti-competitive muscles again.

      The EU will protect us, right… Right?

      • ChewyEnglish
        13•1 year 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.