Another app for Android to implement iMessage.
Another app for Android to implement iMessage.
๐ Weโre thrilled to launch Beeper Mini: our beautiful new Android app to message with iPhones as a legit blue bubble. Download it today on Google Play! No waitlist, no ads ever, and free for 7 days.
All messages are end to end encrypted. Also you don't need an Apple account and it connects directly to Apple servers.
Their "how it works" blog article is worth a read - they're using a blackbox reverse engineering of the protocol and re-implementing it natively in the app, so there are no man-in-the-middle servers. Impressive software engineering for sure.
The tech is called PyPush and was developed by a teenager and purchased by Beeper.
For sure very interesting! And its open source and you can run it in your computer if you have the knowledge.
The first thing it asks you for when you open the app is a Google login. That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
Google login + $2 monthly? Screw that.
I'm not American and I don't see how having iMessage on Android is worth the $2 monthly.
In my whole life I never knew a single person that was reachable only on iMessage or that was so stubborn to ignore messages on any other platform
Yeah but that's how it is here in America , I love my Android and will never change so I guess I am stubborn too.
But why the obsession with iMessage and apple product?!? We donโt care about the colour of the bubble!!!
Apparently American teenagers do and will straight up bully you if you have an Android.
Sounds like a pretty great litmus test of a person's character
Network effect. Gradually over time my whole extended family wound up with iphones for one reason or another, and Android phones would consistently break our group threads. The last few holdouts (not ideologically, they just didn't need new phones) wound up switching to Apple afterwards to make everything smoother for the rest of us.
iMessage group chats.
You do realize iMessage is more than just colored bubbles, right?
A lot of work, data scrapping and security issue just for a pin ?
Seriously ?
What the point, except to simulate the possession of an iPhone to someone who should be a stranger for you or at least physically far from you ?
I clearly don't get it.
Scam interest after a sim swapping attacks ? The goal, need to know it !!
I take it you're not from the US ๐ texting is still the default here, and since apple refuses to open up iMessage and has not yet implemented RCS, Cross-Platform communication is pretty shitty. People get excluded from group chats because even a single user on a different platform will set it back to MMS
iMessage is pretty great to use honestly. Supports encryption, Tapbacks, read receipts, sharing any file type (not just pictures and video). RCS isnโt implemented in iOS yet and on launch wonโt support encryption (supposedly Google is working to add it to the RCS standard, not just Googleโs fork, now that Apple announced future support for the standard).