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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)

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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’::Beeper, like Sunbird and Texts, sought to find a way to bring iMessage to Android users. Its app, Beeper Mini, worked well. But a few days after it launched, Apple took steps to shut it down.

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[-] kaitco@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

Perhaps I just don’t understand why there is such an allure for Android users to gain iMessage…

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Because iPhone owners are petty and care about the text bubble color.

[-] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Also Apple has intentionally made the Android text bubble less readable, so it has a concrete impact

[-] scidoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

how is white on green less readable than white on blue? please elaborate.

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