Comment on Beeper Mini, days after launch, seems to be broken with iMessage not sending or receiving

LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To be fair, I would totally believe Apple changed something small for the sole purpose of breaking iMessage interoperability with Android.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would be surprised if they didn’t have it ready to go and flipped the switch once they felt it would hurt the apps reputation the most.

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• habanhero@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The tech is pretty interesting but the business is sus…It’s kind of like selling fake admissions to a club and calling that a startup.

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • habanhero@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The product Beeper is selling is essentially access to “blue bubbles” and iMessage without having to pay the price of admission (i.e., owning an iDevice and working with Apple). That’s the part that’s shady and sus. What they are paying or saving on infrastructure cost is irrelevant - they are basically still running a counterfeit operation, doesn’t matter what their costs are.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The push servers are required for beeper Mini, because it acts as a gateway between GCM and ANP.

      Beeper Cloud uses Mac Minis, and Beeper posted the software on github so you can self host it.

      The two apps work very differently.

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