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Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android [UPDATED]

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Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android [UPDATED]

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Android@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android | TechCrunch

Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage,

UPDATE: Beeper, through their Twitter account, is saying that they’re working on it and “hope to have good news to share soon”:

Work continues to fix the issue causing the Beeper Mini outage. We know how hard this has been for those who loved using Beeper Mini, and we’re extremely sorry for the inconvenience. We are feeling good, though, and hope to have good news to share soon.

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I think you’re being optimistic in thinking that either of those is going to happen.

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