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There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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• A new Android app called Beeper Mini allows users to send iMessages as blue bubbles from non-Apple devices.

• Beeper Mini bypasses traditional iMessage hacks by directly sending iMessages from Android devices.

• The app has been praised for its smooth functionality, sending messages seamlessly between Android and iPhone users.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (54 children)

Crazy to think this is just because of a different colored bubble

[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (42 children)

It's not the color of the bubble. It's the downgraded chat experience: grainy pictures, pixelated videos, and no E2EE.

Our kid was at a sleepover, recently. We got a video of all the kids playing together, but because it wasn't iPhone to iPhone the video was a low resolution pixelated mess.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (18 children)

So, it's an issue of Apple intentionally withering down the quality if it's not iPhone-iPhone, rather than "incompatibility"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Well, obviously. It's just a protocol. Why wouldn't they be able to make it cross-platform if they wanted to?

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