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.

  • Blue and OrangeEnglish
    35•10 months ago

    A) Apple stop being scummy

    B) USA gets a grip on this bubble colour nonsense and stops using iMessage

    Which comes first?

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
      17•10 months ago

      It’s not about the bubble color, it’s about not being able to use modern messaging features cross-platform.

      • @paintbucketholderEnglish
        11•10 months ago

        The two things go hand in hand, though.

        Degraded messaging gets branded with green bubbles. Green bubbles - i.e. non-Apple phones - get associated with degraded messaging. Non-Apple phones get pidgeon-holed as crappy phones for messaging. People get bullied into buying iPhones.

        • @orrkEnglish
          8•10 months ago

          it gets even better because the android to android messaging is better than the IMessage stuff, but apple purposefully degrades the performance of cross-platform messaging

          • @paintbucketholderEnglish
            2•10 months ago

            Not all iMessage features can be mapped to RCS, so unless Apple brings iMessage to other platforms, non-Apple phones will always be associated with an inferior messaging experience.

    • WilliamEnglish
      9•10 months ago

      I think you’re being optimistic in thinking that either of those is going to happen.