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Beeper is abandoning its mission to bring iMessage to Android after implementing a series of fixes that Apple dropped one by one over the past month. Although the company has Issued a complex solutionand says it has no plans to launch another product if Apple drops it.
“Every time the Beeper Mini app crashes or becomes unreliable due to Apple interference, Beeper’s credibility takes a hit,” the company wrote in a statement. Blog post. “It’s not sustainable. As much as we’d like to fight for what we believe is a great product that should already exist, the reality is that we can’t win the cat-and-mouse game with the biggest company on Earth. With the latest version of our software, we believe we can “We created something that Apple can afford to exist. We have no current plans to respond if this solution is discontinued.”
When Beeper launched, all users had to do was download an app to bring iMessage to Android. Every time Apple has blocked the service since then, Beeper has had to issue workarounds that have gotten more complicated each time. A newer workaround requires users to own or rent a jailbroken iPhone to run iMessage via Beeper. The new solution comes two days after Beeper announced that users need to have access to a Mac computer or have a friend on Beeper who uses a Mac.
For the app to work now, you must have an old jailbroken iPhone (6/6s/SE1/7/8/X) and a computer running Mac or Linux. You’ll then need to install the Beeper tool to generate an iMessage registration code, then update to the latest version of the Beeper Mini app and enter your code. You need to leave your iPhone powered and connected to Wi-Fi at all times.
If users don’t have an old iPhone and don’t want to buy one, Beeper says they can rent one and that he may offer his own rental service if there’s enough interest among users.
Apple did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
The process is very complicated and strays significantly from the original appeal of Beeper, which was supposed to provide an easy way to bring iMessage to Android. Some users have already abandoned the previous solutions, and this latest solution will likely turn many users away from the service. However, Beeper believes this latest fix is something Apple will “tolerate.” Given Apple’s ongoing efforts to take down Beeper, the tech giant will likely want to shut down the service once and for all.
“At this point, it seems difficult for them to defend Apple’s actions to ban the Beeper Mini,” Beeper wrote on his blog. “The only possible reason they would stay is because they might make less money selling iPhones if iMessage was available on Android.”
Earlier this week, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers asked the US Department of Justice to investigate Apple’s “potential anticompetitive treatment” of Pepper, noting that “interoperability and interconnectedness have long been key drivers of competition and choice.” Consumer in telecommunications services. Given recent developments in the saga, it’s unknown if anything of this will come to fruition.
Beeper says it has made the software open source for other developers looking to try it out. Although Beeper has ended its attempt to bring iMessage to Android, the company says it is “shifting focus back to our long-term goal of creating the best chat app on Earth” in the new year.
