Comment on Beeper Mini Is Back

LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• scarilog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Underlying implementation already is. You can connect I iMessage and send and receive messages using the python implementation on your PC if you want.

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• xlash123@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here is their POC in Python:github.com/JJTech0130/pypush

  And their article explaining it: blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works

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• Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, it won’t be. It’s quite clear that while the Beeper company may have good intentions on paper, they also definitely want to make as much money as possible. They aren’t 100% bad, but also not 100% good either.

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  • qwrty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Considering they directly communicate with Apples servers and make money from that…

    But, isn’t that what APIs do? Why would that get Beeper in legal trouble if they are paying their license fee? I’m not being facetious, genuinely curious.

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    • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is no public iMessage API that people can pay to use. Beeper (or rather the code it’s based on) reverse-engineered the iMessage protocol and server APIs and they simply make the same requests as the iMessage app on iOS would.

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