They did. Its called airmessage. Has been around for almost 3 years now
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kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 9 months agoIf the open source community could provide such a service for free I think they would have done it already?
But presumably they lack the ability, the motivation or both.
sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
sour@kbin.social 9 months ago
do you need your own server
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You need a Mac of some kind, Minis are often used.
RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I used airmessage for a while when I was on iOS because I missed able able to message from the web while I was at work.
x4740N@lemmy.world 9 months ago
As much as I want it to he open source what epuld tue risks be of apple finding a way to patch any exploits by looking at the open source code
zeppo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I believe it’s a system that uses an actual Mac as a server for relay. Not really a way for them to stop that, and I doubt they care that much since it requires someone to have a Mac.
key@lemmy.keychat.org 9 months ago
That’s how Beeper works. Beeper Mini doesn’t do that and instead imitates the Mac software, which is why Apple broke it.
zeppo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I thought they meant airmessage.
4z01235@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They did. That’s why Beeper Mini exists.
github.com/JJTech0130/pypush
jjtech.dev/…/imessage-explained/
wired.com/…/beeper-android-iphone-texting-blue-bu…