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Beeper was taken on Apple’s iMessage dominance
Beeper, a text messaging app which was acquired by Tumblr-parent automattic earlier this month, will continue to exist as a stand-alone product within Automattic. However, Beeper Co-founder Eric Migicovsky said that the company will continue to exist as a stand-alone product within the larger entity. Notably, Automattic had acquired Tumblr in 2019 and Beeper in…
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Beeper is attempting to keep the messaging service on the phone
Beeper has claimed it has a new fix to let users send iMessages from their Android phone. However, it said the change requires that you own or have easy access to a trusted Mac. The same registration data will work with Beeper Mini, the app that started this whole saga. Beeper Mini suffered mysterious outages,…
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Beeper is trying to keep the messaging app on the phone
Beeper Mini CEO Eric Migicovsky said that he believes that Apple has a monopoly over iMessage service and the company is trying to provide a service people want. “We’ve been using our own fleet of Macs to provide this. Unfortunately, this has proven to be an easy target for Apple because thousands of Beeper users…
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Apple said that it took steps to protect its users
Beeper Co-founder Dmitry Migicovsky in a recent interview said Apple can’t keep them out forever and that the Beeper Cloud is still functioning. He also said he hopes the public will one day convince Apple to play nice. “The Beeper team has something to say for Beeper Mini,” he added. He also said Beeper Cloud…