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[–] [email protected] 120 points 11 months ago (18 children)

I admire their dedication, but at the same time strongly disagree with asking people to pay money for a service, that's fundamentally based on a hole in a reverse engineered protocol. They won't win this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (11 children)

If the open source community could provide such a thing for free I think they would have done it already?

But presumably they lack the ability, the motivation or both.

[–] sneakyninjapants 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They did. Its called airmessage. Has been around for almost 3 years now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You need a Mac of some kind, Minis are often used.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 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.

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