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There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works

www.theverge.com There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works

The question is how long Apple will let it.

• 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.

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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.

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Hate to say it but who gives a fuck?

Just use signal.

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I'll just continue to use my old strategy of not voluntarily communicating with people who care about what color my text bubble is.

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Fucking insane a 16 year old kid figured it out.

It's always wild to me thinking how good kids are with tech these days to be able to crack something like this (assuming it's true).

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im good thanks

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I don't get why Americans are so obsessed with iMessage. There's like a million chat apps out there.

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Crazy to think this is just because of a different colored bubble

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Is this available on iOS?

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As nice as it would be to have all my messaging in one app rather than across a half dozen, I just can't picture paying a monthly fee to do it.

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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

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Stop trying to make this a thing

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Can some American please explain this European why this is such a big deal?

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Sunbird worked - I was in the beta - but it turned out to have no encryption whatsoever. I am skeptical.

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So if the app will be open source like they say, can't we just build it ourselves and not pay $2/mo?

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no, thx

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The fact that people are using iMessage for group chats is which a weird concept to me.

That’s what discord, WhatsApp and Facebook messenger are for.

If anyone adds my primary text message service number to a group chat they are being blocked. Gross.

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Anecdotally, in my experience everyone in the UK just uses WhatsApp for group chats

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Is the app already down? I can't even read reviews of it on Google Play store

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Impressive if true.

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I've heard of this. But, I wonder... Why is it not subject to the same security risks that ended up killing the iMessage (Nothing Chats?) app on the Nothing phone?

Seems like a man-in-the-middle attack just waiting to happen...

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There’s a new iMessage for Android app —&nbsp;and it actually works

There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works