Beeper Mini, an app that allows you to send and receive “iMessage-compatible” messages on Android, appears to be having difficulties connecting to the servers, as reported by several users on Friday (08). According to Eric Migicowski, CEO of Beeper, these issues may be caused by Apple itself.
After users encountered error messages when trying to send messages through the app, the CEO of the startup, which reverse-engineered iMessage to allow the use of the famous “blue bubbles” on Android, claims that all data indicates that… Apple has found a way to stop the Beeper Mini from working.
To put it in context, when someone exchanges messages with an iOS user via an Android mobile phone, many features become unavailable, since the iPhone’s iMessage is only compatible with SMS and MMS, which do not support functions such as read confirmation and emoticons. Expressionism. , For example.
This is because iMessage, currently, does not support the RCS messaging protocol, which is considered the “successor” to SMS and MMS. The absence of this technology means that communication between iOS and Android is limited to legacy protocols that, among many other limitations, do not support end-to-end encryption.
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“This means that when you message your friends on Android, anyone can read the message. Apple can read the message. Your carrier can read the message. Google… literally, it’s like a postcard. Anyone can,” the executive said in a note to “Read it.” TechCrunch.
After several campaigns promoted by Google, Samsung and other companies in the industry, Apple has confirmed that it will finally implement the RCS protocol in iMessage in 2024.
Migicovsky says Beeper Mini is not only useful for Android users who want to engage in group chats with friends who use iMessage (yes, it’s impossible to create a group between Android and iOS users), but it also provides comprehensive cryptographic security for iPhone users.
Although there are doubts, Beeper has not yet confirmed the origin of the issue that prevents messages from being sent via Beeper Mini to iMessage. If Apple is truly responsible for the service disruption, there is still no way to predict any actions the startup could take to circumvent the supposed blockade.
The Beeper Mini also has plans to bring FaceTime to Android. The feature called Beep Cloud was still in an experimental phase in the application, but with Apple’s supposed resistance to the arrival of third-party applications that imitate its tools in the Google system, there are doubts about the possibility of implementing this feature. .
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