Well, that didn’t last long. Apple seems to have blocked Android’s new iMessage app, Beeper Mini, that promised blue bubble messages to those who settle for pretend iPhones.
On Friday, less than a week after its launch, the app started experiencing technical issues when users were suddenly unable to send and receive blue bubble messages. The problems grew worse over the course of the day, with reports piling up on the Beeper subreddit. Several people at The Verge were unable to activate their Android phone numbers with Beeper Mini as of Friday afternoon, a clear indication that Apple has plugged up whatever holes allowed the app to operate to begin with.
This throws a huge wrench into Beeper’s plans; the company was hoping to evolve Beeper Mini into an all-in-one messaging app that would eventually wrap in RCS and SMS.
Reached for comment, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky did not deny that Apple has successfully blocked Beeper Mini.
MacDailyNews Take: You want to use Apple’s iMessage instant messaging service to its fullest? Get a real iPhone.
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Get a real iPhone you dickwads.
Willingly green you pretentious tw@t!
Copy everything on the iPhone (badly) and then pretend you don’t want an iPhone. Who exactly is the pretentious twat? You, I think.
Living in green hell is your choice. I hope you stay there.
Not pretending. But enjoy your insecurity.
We don’t want iMessage because we like iMessage or something, it’s because texting between iPhones and other phones is using a protocol literally developed in the 90s. It’s awful for everyone.
We don’t want to use iMessage, we just want to make it better for iPhone users to text us and for it to better for us to text iPhone users.
As someone who splits time between California and Europe, “send as sms” has been the only way to get a message through many times after “failed to send” errors, and not even always.
iMessage sucks, it’s less intuitive and useful than Messenger or WhatsApp. Apple spends half of every keynote focused on the latest FaceMoji or whatever other crap they’ve shoved into it, but for a core, marquee iPhone app, it’s sub-par at its primary function, sending messages.
“Apple spends half of every keynote focused on the latest FaceMoji or whatever other crap they’ve shoved into….”
Apple is doing A LOT more of this “feature introduction” because “we don’t know what we want.” Jobs masterfully executed this thinking. Currently, the execution often results results in crap ‘n cruff.