Personally I don’t care about this since apple is adopting rcs next year. But its a great thing for people who want iMessage.
It looks like Beeper has purchased the software from the person who developed this, but his GitHub repo for it is still up.
He has also created a way to permanently side load apps on iPhone without jailbreaking. I imagine Apple will be working on both of these “problems”.
iMessage reverse engineering hack that was purchased by Beeper: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush
iPhone side loading: https://github.com/SideStore
I think it’s awesome that they paid the dev. More companies should do that for open source projects
Eh, imessage isn’t worth paying a subscription for. Not a monthly one for sure. Like, I’m glad people have the option now, but I just don’t see the benefit being high enough to warrant a subscription.
tbh, I don’t like where this new product seems to be taking Beeper. I was a giant fan of Beeper because they were a huge contributor to the matrix project. But with them creating an entirely new app that doesn’t rely on matrix at all, it looks like they may be looking to pivot away and create their own client-side implementations rather than use matrix bridges. It would be sad to lose a contributor to the matrix space.
In the future, we are planning to add Matrix network support back in, along with support for the 15 other chat networks in Beeper Cloud. Read more about our roadmap.
from the beepers own post instead of this reblog
Downloaded out of curiosity but my Micro-G based ROM isn’t supported.
Stock pixel is giving me error.null when trying to sign in, I think the release is just bugged
How come? Does it require Google Play?
It uses FCM for the notifications.
But why the obsession with iMessage and apple product?!? Cannot every people at least send a SMS to others and that’s it? We don’t care about the colour of the bubble!!!
I just want better upload limits which RCS gives us. So personally, I’m indifferent.
Upset about getting curved by the only Tinder match they’d had in months after she saw their green bubble
It basically copies the best of every other messaging platform. I was at my in-laws where everyone on my wife’s side has an iPhone and we’re talking about a LOT of the features.
- can tell if notifications are turned off on phone
- read receipts
- higher quality limit on video/pictures sent
- messaging that can be done in wifi-only areas (imagine having a few group threads/people you CANT talk to while at home because you live in a dead zone)
Any other big feature of any other messaging app I was able to think of (Signal/Whatsapp, discord, slack) is all there (except public chatrooms and private servers obvs), WITH OS integration
I still like my pixel, but I get it now.
Still holding out hope that Google allows for RCS features to come to Google voice.
Yeah, I’m using Google RCS Message too, let’s hope Apple will integrate all the RCS features too
It’s not about the color, sms is an ancient and limited piece of tech
yes, we need E2E encryption, at least
People care about the color of the bubble, even if you don’t. A LOT of place’s don’t regularly use SMS.
If it’s that Beeper then it’s not just about imessage, but facebook messenger, whatsapp, instagram, telegram, viber and a few others too. Beeper supports all that, by using Matrix bridges.
No, its a new app! They built specifically for iMessage only. Learn more here: https://blog.beeper.com/p/introducing-beeper-mini-get-blue
Interesting. I just checked and found the information. It sounds like they want to rebuild the whole app and just add one service at a time. They are starting with just iMessage.
https://www.beeper.com/faq#what-is-beeper
Edit: I wonder how long this will last. They aren’t using a Mac to log you into your iCloud account with this. They have found a workaround.
“This is now possible because the iMessage protocol and encryption have been reverse engineered by jjtech, a security researcher.”
Edit 2: I’m really curious about this. The researcher has some Python that can run anywhere and let you send iMessages. It seems like something the Apple would shutdown, but, on the other hand, I wouldn’t expect Beeper to introduce an app that might get disabled.
I’m confused about this article because I have Beeper, but they make this statement:
“Beeper Mini is a new app from the folks behind Beeper, a unified chatting and inbox app that brings together the best chat apps under one roof.”
I haven’t heard about a mini version.
Its a new version they called Mini because it only supports iMessage natively. There is a research who reverse engineered how iMessage works that’s how they manage to make it work without an Apple account and just your phone number.
Sounds like it’s something Apple could easily kill by changing something in the protocol that would require it to be re-reverse engineered.
I’m not entirely sure if iMessage still works right now for phones that ran out of support, but such a change would kill it for those phones too.
