Beeper Mini made Android users blue bubbles. Apple shut it down after only a few days.

Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’::Beeper, like Sunbird and Texts, sought to find a way to bring iMessage to Android users. Its app, Beeper Mini, worked well. But a few days after it launched, Apple took steps to shut it down.

  • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There are some people that send a lot of pictures over text messages, who want it for the upgraded image sharing quality. That’s a sane enough reason, at least.

    On the bright side, the kind of people who judge other people for their text message bubble color are not the kind of people I want in my life. So at least it’s another asshole filter.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Unless you’re sending RAW pictures, it shouldn’t matter. I’ve never had a problem with image quality over SMS. Videos are a different story, they’re compressed to death and end up looking like watching a video over dial-up in the late 90s.