Some of use aren’t so childish and rude. Also, Beeper is leeching off another business’s software, another business’s server space, another business’s service, in complete violation of the terms of service for said service, without consent from the other business, without paying the other business, and then whines like a little toddler when said other business closes the back-doors they were trying to exploit, which likely could also be used for scammy purposes. Oh, and even though Beeper was using said other business’s system for free and without consent, they wanted people to pay them for it! They should get sued.
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Beeper Mini on Continued Outages: 'It's Super Annoying That Apple is Penalizing Their Own Customers'
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I just checked the text from the lady who cleans my house, of the damage that was done by a tree that came down in a storm, while I was out of town. There is no problem with the photograph at all. I can clearly see the damage done by the tree. She is definitely a green bubble Android user.
The time spent trying to stop a silly text message maybe they should focus on the bugs on the Apple TV cause it ain’t even functioning right since the new update
How could these guys not think this through before making the app - surely they could see that Apple wasn't going to allow this or play nice.
This weeks ATP episode had some amazing opinions on it. I agree with them all too!
Anybody else listened to it?
Anybody else listened to it?
Fight for interoperability all you want. You are getting RCS.
iMessage can and should exist for IOS users. It's not Apple's fault that IOS users in the states are happy with iMessage. We have choices. Some (like me) use them. Most apparently dont. So you should force Apple to open up iMessage because ios users dont want to use any other app?
If you are getting RCS then you are getting interoperability. You are not entitled to be in the iMessage walls.
Yet we cannot set any of them as the default in iOS/iPadOS.
If we could …. This would not be an issue.
Apple needs to issue a TRO and put this madness to an end. Leeching off of Apple's userids, servers, platform, protocols, and then trying to charge and make a profit with none of the proceeds going to Apple. And then crying when Apple pulls the plug. This is entitlement run amok.
I (we) should be entitled to set a different default messaging app on iOS, though.
Welcome to the era of “break the rules and then blame the good guy” when you get caught!
the world is going to end in 365.25 days if we don’t stop Apple’s tyranny!!!
… 365.26 days later after nothing happens: the world is going to end in 400 days if we don’t stop Apple’s tyranny!
… 401 days later after nothing happens: the universe is going to collapse in on itself if we don’t stop Apple’s tyranny.
… 365.26 days later after nothing happens: the world is going to end in 400 days if we don’t stop Apple’s tyranny!
… 401 days later after nothing happens: the universe is going to collapse in on itself if we don’t stop Apple’s tyranny.
Now you’re understanding why beeper mini exists! Not to sell a feature or help the poor Android users! It’s to exploit Apple’s data n a lawsuit!
Didn’t Apple recently state that they were implementing RCS messaging beginning next year? Won’t that enable encryption and similar features to what iMessage currently provides to Apple users? In the meantime use SMS or one of the myriad other messaging apps. Hacking iMessage is not the way to do things.
Eventually, yes. They pledged to work to make encrypted RCS a standard. It's not at the moment.
Some folks in this forum seem really bothered by green text people joining their little club without paying the premium and it's been interesting to watch, to say the least.
Me, iphone owner since the first generation.
I’m not bothered by someone with a green bubble communicating with me, what does bother me is when one business essentially hacks and misuses another business’s services and software without their permission or any compensation, and then throws a fit like a child when other said business locks them out of their system… It has nothing to do with green text people joining a club, what most people here are pointing out is that Beeper is acting way outside of legal bounds, and Apple would have every right to sue them if they chose to. So far, Apple has merely closed the door, which is rather lenient.
For the people saying “but you can’t set other messaging apps as default”, you really don’t need to. You can hide the Messages app away somewhere and put your messaging app of choice front and center on your home screen wherever you like. There isn’t much difference if it’s the “default” or not, except maybe incoming phone calls, but that’s irrelevant to texts. Just give out your contact for whatever messaging app you’ve chosen, and messaging can mostly be handled there if you want. Lots of people do it.
You have an interesting definition of the word hack
This isn’t about Google.
It’s about having E2EE between iMessage and the rest of the world. Personally I wish they would all use Signal or Telegram as the default.
Impossible in the Apple world.
Sadly.
This idea that Beeper hacked iMessage seems like a poor word choice... they reverse engineered it.
It's not as if they did this maliciously, I think that's what's causing the disconnect here... it's a problem created by Apple that they are attempting to fix. Of course, Apple does not care to fix this problem because it benefits them.
Sue them for what exactly?