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Mereo@lemmy.ca 5 months agoIt’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.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 months 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)