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Beeper throws in the towel and abandons iMessage support on Android

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After a few weeks of pure chaos, Beeper has announced that it will no longer try to bring iMessage support to Android users.
After a few weeks of pure chaos, Beeper has announced that it will no longer try to bring iMessage support to Android users as “each time that Beeper Mini goes ‘down’ or is made to be unreliable due to interference by Apple, the company’s credibility takes a hit,” said Beeper in a blog post.
After detailing that it was using Beeper Cloud’s desktop app on Mac to obtain iMessage registration data, the company also said it could make iMessage work on Android as long as the other user had a jailbroken iPhone from 6 to X. But as these verification methods became more and more difficult, what’s the point of using iMessage for Android rather than just buying an iPhone – or using WhatsApp?
That being said, if Apple is able to shut down this latest attempt to bring iMessage to more users, Beeper will now focus on its main goal of building “the best chat app on earth.

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