Beeper Mini versus Apple: How Apple is monopolizing iMessage on Mobile Devices and Where We Are Trying to Get It

Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky talked to CBS News on Monday about the fight to keep Beeper Mini alive. Migicovsky told CBS News that Beeper is trying to provide a service people want and reiterated his belief that Apple has a monopoly over its iMessage service. The company created Beeper Mini after Gill contacted them and said he was going to reverse-engineer the software.

Beeper claims it has a new fix to let you send iMessages from your Android phone — but the change requires that you own or have easy access to a trusted Mac.

When you connect iMessage on Beeper, we need to send identification information called ‘registration data’ from a real Mac. We have, up until now, we been using our own fleet of Mac servers to provide this. Unfortunately, this has proven to be an easy target for Apple because thousands of Beeper users were using the same registration data.