Beeper Mini brings iMessage to Android - The Verge
The question is how long Apple will let it.
Note: this is a paid subscription service with a 7-day trial. $1.99 USD/mo.
Stop trying to bring iMessage to Android!
I’d much rather Google innovate, make a better product, and not cancel it, but if this brings more young people over to Android in America, I’m all for it.
If things continue how they have been, I won’t realistically be able to use Android because the overwhelming majority of people around me will be using iPhones. That has a knock on effect of poor support on Android apps, missing features, missing out on integration experiences, etc. which makes it harder and harder to use Android. You could still choose to use Android but if like 80%-90% of people are using iPhones, you may as well be using an old flip phone.
Edit: to be clear, I'm not saying iPhones are better than Androids. My concern is with phone use trends in the US and what that will mean for us in the next few decades
Yeah, no. I'll take my Galaxy Fold 5 over an iPhone any day of the week, thanks.
Ignoramuses who believe Android is technologically falling behind the iPhone are flatly wrong on nearly every count. Android caught up to iOS in about 2008 and has been leading the way in features ever since. The more open app ecosystem has lead to a flourishing open source development community.
Anything you can do on a computer, you can do on an Android. iPhones are fundamentally limited to what Apple gives permission to exist within their app store, by contrast. Android lets you install an alternative store and therefore anything you want.
The best thing I can say about Beeper Mini is that almost no one noticed I was using it: blue bubbles just started appearing — no lost messages to speak of.
For all the bitching and moaning about green bubbles, no one even noticed the blue one?
Hahaha, right?
This is cool but I'm happy self hosting bluebubbles.
Using a matrix bridge?
No, I setup a MacOS VM on my home Linux server using docker-osx which runs a bluebubbles server. It doesn't use Matrix.
I'm trying it out. It works well.
Not sure if I'm going to keep an active acct tho. Not until it integrates with more services. That's on the road map
I have been using it and so far I am very impressed. I can't point to anything not working as expected. If Apple finds a way to shut it down I won't be surprised but time will tell. In my case it asked for my Apple ID but I know if your number is not tied to an Apple ID it won't ask.
