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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users (techcrunch.com)
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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Which should go away anyway once Apple bakes in RCS support

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Which they will surely do with no caveats whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They’re doing the GSMA standard and nothing else. I think they refuse to play ball with any standard Google controls either directly or indirectly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hate apple as much as the next guy, but I respect them for that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s just smart business. Why give up any level of control of anything to a direct competitor when you don’t have to?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Especially Google, and especially the crappy implementation of RCS.

I see posts every day of people having issues. Messages not sent, not received, etc.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

They're not doing encryption, because Google is using their own.

RCS is too little, too late. It sucks. I refuse to ever use it.