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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users (techcrunch.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Are their messages from their app going to show blue to iMessage users or something? Cuz I don't see why you'd need to reverse engineer that otherwise. Even then... How hard is it to spoof a Mac address or other hardware identifier that says the message came from an iPhone?

The fact this is even an issue is just ridiculous to begin with. If you give that much of a shit: Use a different god damn messenger that treats everyone the same.

[–] yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

afaik, their while thing is that they do everything on-device, so your device is the only one with access to your messages