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Beeper Mini Is Back (blog.beeper.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can’t have a properly working group chat if there’s ~~an android~~ SMS in the mix.

So anything that isn't iOS/iMessage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Whenever it has to fallback to SMS.

I mean there's really no other realistic way to enable a single app to utilize two very different communication "protocols" (in quotes, because SMS is only nominally a protocol).

I've always though iMessage was the approach to getting away from crappy SMS.

So when Signal did the same, I was very optimistic. It removed a barrier to entry for users by supporting SMS plus an encrypted method for connections that had Signal. And you could enable it to add a signature saying something like "Sent from Signal, this could be an encrypted conversation if you download Signal" or something like that. That was a great idea.

(weird, not sure why these are two comments and it looks like I replied to myself)