Expect Beeper Mini’s iMessage support to be unreliable, as service goes down again
Beeper might be developing "the best chat app on Earth," but don't expect iMessage support to be reliable, considering what we've witnessed in the past few days. Beeper Mini took advantage of a loophole to offer iMessage support to Android users without requiring the setup of a Mac computer in the cloud. Apple then closed the workaround, which it highlighted as a security issue that it had to fix.
Still, iMessage worked via Beeper Cloud, and Beeper found a way to make it work on Beeper Mini while simultaneously dropping the price for access. I did say a few days ago that iMessage isn't anyone's right. It's proprietary Apple software that you have to pay for by buying the hardware. Beeper asking for money for stealing iMessage access from Apple was all the more surprising.
Fast-forward to Wednesday evening, and the Beeper-Apple drama continued with a new episode. Some Beeper Mini users found the iMessage support was gone again. Beeper blamed it on Apple, but said only a small fraction of users are affected, and the fix is easy to deploy. I expect this to be the new standard Beeper Mini experience when it comes to iMessage.
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