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- technology@beehaw.org
• A new Android app called Beeper Mini allows users to send iMessages as blue bubbles from non-Apple devices.
• Beeper Mini bypasses traditional iMessage hacks by directly sending iMessages from Android devices.
• The app has been praised for its smooth functionality, sending messages seamlessly between Android and iPhone users.
I started using it mainly to not have pictures and videos sent get all degraded, it does work.
Anyhow all my friends were like OMG, YOU GOT AN IPHONE because my messages started coming through blue and I was like, why does that fucking matter?
This is like when I started drinking my coffee black and suddenly I knew the secret handshake at every coffee place I’d order at. Baristas would be like, “the way it should be” and wink and shit. Um. I guess I’m cool now or something
Instead of sucking Apple’s dick and trying out hardest to integrate into their ecosystem, we should break them apart through governmental mandates, like how it has been slowly happening.
Yeah fuck apple in the ass…
Hate to say it but who gives a fuck?
Just use signal.
iPhone users be like “but I paid $1200 for this blue bubble!”
1200 for a shitty subpar phone
And a software design 15 years old. None of the added stuff like notification drawer and updates over air is by Apple.
I have to convince every one of my friends to switch because they all use SMS/iMessage. Outside of the US, you would have to convince every one of your friends to switch from WhatsApp.
I’d love to, but none of my friends use it unfortunately
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Sorry, but that’s a pretty arrogant thing to say
Not to mention absolutely ridiculous. Dumping friends over their preferred messaging platform is literally what the green bubbles problem is.
There’s been some social discrimination occurring around people who don’t have blue messages being excluded, or being seen as poor. Not a great use base but the fact I am even aware of blue Vs green messages means some people do.
This is the only semi-legitimate reason I can get behind. For kids in grade-school.
If anybody outside of grade-school brings this up, I would laugh and ignore.
Can some American please explain this European why this is such a big deal?
Anecdotally, in my experience everyone in the UK just uses WhatsApp for group chats
Stop trying to make this a thing
Is this available on iOS?
Lol
So if the app will be open source like they say, can’t we just build it ourselves and not pay $2/mo?
you would have to run the back end servers as well I believe
There shouldn’t be any back end beeper servers with this implementation if they really do what they say and interface directly with Apple servers.
It’s a bridge for notifications. Since Apple’s APN notification servers require a persistent connection to work, meaning that the application must be running continuously to receive notifications, the Beeper servers push those notifications (messages) to your phone.
This means that the application does not need to be running continuously to receive messages.
Crazy to think this is just because of a different colored bubble
Only happens in Muricaland.
Crazy to think people actually believe this has anything at all to do with bubble colors.