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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)

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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.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago

Sounds like more people should just use the same Matrix bridges that Beeper is using for their main service and just spinning up their own Matrix server instead of trusting a third party with their Apple credentials logged into a Mac that lives on their property and is technically owned by them. The "original plan" was to send out refurbished iPhone 4's to people to use, but apparently letting consumers have a little more control was going to be too confusing or something and instead they rolled out a fleet of Macs internally.

Matrix is trusted and secure. Why bother with a third party charging for a service of... setting it up for you, with a flashy front-end?