Beeper Mini made Android users blue bubbles. Apple shut it down after only a few days.

Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’::Beeper, like Sunbird and Texts, sought to find a way to bring iMessage to Android users. Its app, Beeper Mini, worked well. But a few days after it launched, Apple took steps to shut it down.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    i just want to talk to my family on a single non meta owned platform… the only ones to join me on on signal are my dad and my wife, the majority have iphones.

    • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      what makes you think that Apple is any better than Meta? their “privacy” marketing? I wouldn’t believe a single word of it.

      Both iMessage and WhatsApp are trash. At least WhatsApp is cross platform.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Common advice is if its free then you are the product and the apple does not do free. They dont need to sell data to data companies to turn a profit, which meta and google very much do.

        That doesn’t say apple is secure or private. Personally i don’t trust any that ain’t self hosted but i do have a personal ranking, worst to best for tech companies

        Meta - Amazon - google - Microsoft- apple