They’re was one just before it that ran on Mac mini farms.
Pretty much every other service ran on what I assume are MacOS VMs, because buying a $3k MacBook for every user would not make sense.
BlueBubbles, Sunbird, Beeper, etc.
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db2@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
If it accessed the message system directly then it makes sense. They’re was one just before it that ran on Mac mini farms.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Arthur@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Beeper Mini registered your phone number with Apple and connected directly to the iMessage servers. That version was killed after three days of usage. The mac mini farm still works but that’s just through an apple ID email address.
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
I recall reading somewhere that you could register your number by putting your SIM card in some old iPhone and activating iMessage and your number gets linked to your Apple ID, once that’s done, you could power off the iPhone and put it back in your Android. Although there was some caveat like needing to repeat this process a few months(?) or something otherwise your number would drop out. Not sure if all of this still works though.