60% of Beeper users aren't able to send or receive iMessage, and the company's upcoming Android solution is to "have access to a Mac...
  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    i really just do not get it, nor the fascination with it here of all places-- for a community that’s so focused and energized by FOSS and FOSS platforms and FOSS projects, why does this community want to break into Apple’s closed-source, walled-garden, proprietary ecosystem so badly, especially after maligning it every chance you people get? Practically every post about Apple here just trashes Apple for how terrible they are for being closed-source and proprietary with their ecosystem-- except when it comes to iMessage and their precious “blue bubbles” which, apparently, nobody can live without and must be accessed at all costs.

    why not just make your own FOSS “blue bubble” chat app, but with blackjack and hookers that doesn’t use Apple’s servers or ecosystem? Why is iMessage the one white whale that the Android community (and people here on Lemmy) simply can’t seem to get over?

  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    As a European, this sounds like a very American problem. Over here, everyone uses WhatsApp and WhatsApp only since 2012.

    It’s bad. People don’t even wanna use signal.

  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Makes sense because they were spoofing real machine IDs. People want to shit on apple for shutting it down, but I would be fucking pissed if I started getting other people’s messages and notifications while having mine go to someone else.

    Trying to build a business off of someone else’s services is scummy and Apple did the right thing. If they weren’t charging for it I might feel differently.

    • kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      If they weren’t charging for it I might feel differently.

      I don’t think they ever charged anybody, they suspended that idea after the first outage.

      Also, they were using their own fleet of Macs, hence why Apple was able to isolate them easily if they’re all centrally located.

      • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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        10 months ago

        My understanding of it (and I could be wrong I’m not that invested in this) is that the first iteration used their Mac fleet, while the second iteration was spoofing IDs. This would be the third iteration.

        It was a few days ago I read this, I’d have to look up the source again

        I have no problem with this third iteration. There’s plenty of Mac users with android phones. If you’re using your own machine ID, have at ‘er.