Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works

• Mereo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a bridge for notifications. Since Apple’s APN notification servers require a persistent connection to work, meaning that the application must be running continuously to receive notifications, the Beeper servers push those notifications (messages) to your phone.

  This means that the application does not need to be running continuously to receive messages.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exactly. They host the Apple equivalent to GMS, which is called APN (or is it ANP? Alle Notification Protocol? I forget, but the Bubbler Mini devs explain it well)

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• MagneticFusion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I did not read the article. I was assuming it just works with Matrix bridges

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  • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Here’s a simple picture with minimal reading required.

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    This is very different to the technology used in the free/wait-list Beeper Cloud app and all the other previous attempts at an iMessage for Android app.

    To summarize:

    All messages are sent directly between your device and Apple’s servers. You do not even need an AppleID. There is a cloud server involved but it’s only job is to send push notifications to Android so they app knows when to download new messages (securely with iMessage encryption) from Apple’s servers.

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    • scarilog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Running BlueBubbles at the moment, eagerly awaiting someone to build a self hosted implementation of this so I can stop relying on my macos VM.

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      • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Running BlueBubbles at the moment, eagerly awaiting someone to build a self hosted implementation of this so I can stop relying on my macos VM.

        Beeper Mini does not require a Mac VM or any Apple products. There’s no cloud proxy. It registers your phone number directly with Apple’s servers, you don’t even need an AppleID at all, just like on an iPhone.

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    • MagneticFusion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      looks cool, but I won’t be adding to iMessage’s closed ecosystem and monopoly in the US

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