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The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

    • Gogo Sempai@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      They should add login and subscription handling on their website as well like so many do, with 30% off on the subscription fee because there’d be no Google tax.

      • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Looks like both. Beeper mini (and a lot of other apps) ask the play store if the user paid for the app, which is a heavily pretexts part of goggles services… so using non-Google services means I can’t sign into beeper mini at all. They can’t prove I paid for it, especially since I don’t have a Google account at all.

          • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            Well I do have GCM, it’s how all my other apps are able to work, even pokemon etc.

            I think it’s purely that beeper is relying on Google authenicating that I paid for the app. Could there be a cracked apk? Probably, but I’m not willing to risk using that.