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I'm pretty sure almost everyone sending messages from an iPhone to another is using it.
Even iPhone users in Europe tend to just use WhatsApp. It's the default there, largely because of the history of carriers charging thru the nose for SMS back in the day...when WhatsApp offered "free" messaging (uses tiny amounts of your data plan), it took off.
Really happy to see that original customers are getting this included as well. I was worried that this was a ploy to say "we know we said you all would be grandfathered in, but that was for _Beeper Cloud_, our old legacy one. This new one is a monthly charge". Thanks for being great, @erohead
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How about not being in a walled garden and actually having access to your device?
Yeah, I hear Android manufacturers and app developers are very encouraging of unlocked bootloaders and user root access. It's not 2008 anymore, we're all in walled gardens now.
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iMessage is not DRM. It is not protecting IP.
The component that tries to identify that you're accessing it from the right device isn't DRM? I don't think courts would agree with that.
Device: Beeper, 0.15.0, Beeper bridge server, Web, 1.33.0a1 Location: Germany (IP = 178.63.65.55)
For security reasons, please confirm this request by pressing the Allow button at the bottom of this message using one of your mobile devices."
I just downloaded it, and can't get past the landing/sign-in page: "Google sign in error.null" Unfortunately, signing in with Google is the only option.
Same as above. Pixel 5, running Android 14. (Edit: the help link provided did not help, as the toggle was already on)
Great job! Just from taking a quick look at this, what you have here is much bigger than iMessage itself. This could literally allow things like Universal Clipboard to work on Linux and Windows - by using the method presented here to access the iCloud Keychain and generating Continuity keys and placing them there - then the iPhone will broadcast its clipboard data encrypted with those keys via BLE. If I understand al…
Hi, I immediately subscribed. Is there any way to adjust the display name for my contacts to use nicknames instead of contact name?
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I don’t know what you mean by “common good” in this context, but if a company has a dominant market position and uses its power to cripple competition, then it falls within antitrust laws. iMessage is so important today, especially to young Americans, that its exclusivity to iOS has become a significant barrier to Android or other operating systems from being competitive. It’s up to regulators and the court system to…
Apple does not require any consumer to use iMessage, nor do they make installing alternatives such as Whatsapp difficult. iMessage is simply a messaging option. This is in stark contrast to how MS treated IE back in the antitrust lawsuit days. The fact that lots of people prefer to use iMessage -- despite myriad easily-accessible alternatives -- doesn't feel anticompetitive in the slightest; in fact making a product…
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This was tried by apple. https://www.engadget.com/apple-drops-its-lawsuit-against-a-m...
Emulation software isn’t wholly original as it needs firmware and software from the device so emulated. An iPhone emulator with no bootrom and no iOS isn’t very useful. An open source client for an API need not include any non-original works.