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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users (techcrunch.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

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

To be fair, Google’s messaging plans and implementations have been all over the place for a decade. Apple still should have been more proactive. They promised iMessage would come to Android until they realized how much of a moat it became for their business.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Apple has no obligation to use any of Google's or Google's preferred communication standards. They can open up the iMessage protocol or they can use literally any other open standards (like Signal's).