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Beeper Mini Resorts to Jailbreaking iPhones to Rescue Blue Bubbles
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I don't because they should have had common sense. If anything these people literally preyed on the desperation of Android users to profit off their desire for blue bubbles and made some quick cash.
It's predatory yet i commend them for it at the same time.
Because the world is full of stupid, stubborn people.
Oh god, please stop. it was good and actually useful when people could use a phone number or Apple ID, but now it's just trying too hard.
So you’re saying Android users also shouldn’t be sending emails to iCloud Mail addresses, for risk of overloading Apple’s servers? Yeah, that totally makes sense.
I'm pretty sure they're not VC funded.
This is going to be a niche service for sure, but some number of people will really want it, and for them it's a great product. I have an iPhone at the moment, but I may switch to Android in the future (I have some serious gripes with iOS), and if I did I would 100% be willing to jump through whatever hoops I had to in order to keep iMessage working, because that's what all my friends, family, and coworkers use.
Tech enthusiasts who are either Mac+Android users (they exist, for some reason), or are in majority iPhone families. But I can't imagine that is a pool of customers large enough to justify this nonsense.
the difference being the emails sent from Android phones aren't hacking into icloud mail to use icloud mail addresses.
SO that point you were trying to make doesnt make any sense.
Honestly it's time to let it go. Bleeper is starting to act like that ex who cant let go.
It keeps repeating because there are certain iPhone users who are obsessed with blue bubbles. If you realize that blue bubbles exist ONLY on an iPhone screen then it becomes obvious that only one group could care about the color of their bubbles. Speaking of living in a bubble, I've began to realize that many iPhone users feel they're part of an exclusive club. Comments here lead me to believe these particular users think an open system would somehow take away their ability to feel unique. An iPhone owner who needs blue bubble exclusively is like the Porsche owner who has to wear a Porsche jacket to the office every day. It's just not a good look.
Conspiracy theory: Beeper Mini was secretly a ploy to trick Android users to buy iPhones by slowly but surely requiring Apple devices to use
I think we can all agree at this point Apple should allow beeper its own third party app store on iOS.
it's like apple doesnt want you to use iMessage at all and commenters here will support that by telling you to use whatsapp/messenger/signal/etc for the apparently earth shattering feature of up to date interoperability
This is MacRumors giving them coverage based on a deleted blog post.
Can you please explain to me why you guys feel you are Obligated to iMessage? Like seriously. And please dont give me the same tired arguments about E2EE (half of you guys dont even know what that is or better yet use google and you are worried about privacy) and sending compressed videos (when they have a multi-tude of apps to send videos on).
Outside of all those same arguments, why on earth are you entitled to imessage...a feature made for IOS devices.
I can tell you why I hate the idea of Beeper (well one of them). It's simple. I use a lot of apple specific products and services and features that CANT work with Android (Apple pay and reservations for example. Sharing my location is another).
How am I supposed to know if I am talking to a legit Apple customer or a Fraud? Now you could argue that Apple should bring Apple imessage to Android and I'd argue why? Why do you feel you need something from another company because your preferred company can't make anything compelling that people want to use. Because RCS is one of Google's MANY attempts to control messaging over the last 20 years. Literally.
I can make a good point about RCS that i recently. Google doesn't even allow its RCS Apis to be utilized by 3rd party messaging apps thus forcing all android users who want to use RCS to use google's messaging app or not have RCS. Meaning Google is literally doing the same exact thing that Apple is accused of doing: Locking people into their apps.
oh dear pearl clutching christ lmao
No hacking, they are using Apple’s regular iMessage protocol. The only difference is that it is a proprietary protocol instead of an open protocol.
I'm waiting for the final version of this which Apple will not be able to block. It'll involve you buying an iPhone, copying and pasting your message from the Messages app into a Beeper Mini proxy app on the iPhone. This will then appear on your Android Beeper Mini app. To send a message you'll then just reverse this process, typing it out on Android and then copying and pasting from the Beeper Mini proxy into Messages to send it.
It'll be flawless and perfectly solve this problem once and for all...
It'll be flawless and perfectly solve this problem once and for all...
This is becoming pretty damn comical. It's also incredibly nonsensical to me.
Pretty much all the Android users I know use Android phones because they dislike Apple and iPhones. Which is fine, that's their opinion and they're entitled to it.
But why would they be so desperate to use iMessage then? Seems a bit hypocritical to me. I mentioned this whole kerfluffle to my Android using friend and he was utterly perplexed as to why someone would go through so much trouble to use iMessage which "sucks", in his words.
If you're so desperate to use iMessage, just get an iPhone.
Pretty much all the Android users I know use Android phones because they dislike Apple and iPhones. Which is fine, that's their opinion and they're entitled to it.
But why would they be so desperate to use iMessage then? Seems a bit hypocritical to me. I mentioned this whole kerfluffle to my Android using friend and he was utterly perplexed as to why someone would go through so much trouble to use iMessage which "sucks", in his words.
If you're so desperate to use iMessage, just get an iPhone.
So you literally have to buy an iPhone to get imessage to work on android? 😂