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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Aside from the obvious reasons of competition, Beeper also used Apples infrastructure, that Beeper was then going to monetize. Not too surprising they shut it down.

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

No, they were charging money as they had their own APN to BPN bridge. Plus the usual cost of development and more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To keep Beeper Mini running, Beeper uses a Beeper Push Notification (BPN) service to connect to Apple's servers and notify you of new messages.

And it uses Apples gateway service for setup.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/beeper-mini-on-android-claims-to-have-reverse-engineered-imessage-compatibility

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes. I did mention APN (Apple Push Notifications) to Beeper Push Notifications which then routes via FCM for Android. The whole setup does require active server cost + time to work on the app to bring it to parity with iMessage Features.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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