Beeper Mini’s iMessage fight with Apple is about platforms, protocols, and power - The Verge
Beeper Mini’s iMessage fight with Apple is about platforms, protocols, and power - The Verge
Beeper is right about the world, and Apple is right about Beeper.
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No, it's about making a quick buck with the first couple months of subscription before Apple kills the workaround again. That's it.
Companies know making a statement or somehow making their product sound like some fight for user freedom will make crap tier articles like these circle around, making more people know the product and therefore raising the chance of some sucker buying a subscription.
If this were a fight against locked down Apple protocols, they'd be Saurik - a dude who dedicated over a decade of his life doing this, a lot of personal money, a lot of time in courtrooms and similar, and never tried to sell you anything or get famous over it. He did more than people like Rossmann, but with a thousand times less public support and fame.
Right, right.
Which is why they've worked on so much, even open sourced Beeper Cloud for self hosting..
They also stopped subscription charges for now.
A product became temporarily free after a major roadblocker that brought on negative press? Oh my god! That's crazy, I've never seen this before! You've totally convinced me, they're doing this out of passion.
Im using it for half a year and never paid a cent
The subscription was set out for much longer than the apple drama
Also I'd argue that it's actually good press to see apple directly responding to a small company like this