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.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yep.

    Base usage must be free.

    And that base needs to compete with everything else.

    Maybe a paid tier for media beyond a certain size, say 50mb or 100mb, I don’t know. If I had to pay for being able to have 50mb attachments, I’d be willing to work to keep the sizes lower, helping reduce their costs. If I felt I needed the attachment size, say for work, then I could upgrade.

    Or maybe a paid tier for self-hosting that can interconnect with the rest of Signal.

    Hell, once I can start using Signal as my primary (or if they brought SMS back), I’d happily pay.