![]() “Beeper Cloud and Mini are apps that need to exist,” he wrote, in response to a tweet asking if “an endless cat and mouse game” is a reliable business model. Indeed, the WSJ article digs out a decade-old quote from Apple’s Craig Federighi, where he says that introducing iMessage to Android would only result in removing an “obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones”.įor now, Migicovsky appears bullish about the prospects of keeping Beeper going. Apple has confirmed that Android messages will still be green, even after the integration of RCS is complete. That’s especially true of young users who, as the Wall Street Journal famously explored, can be a bit judgemental about the second-class texting experience Android users get on the platform: basic text, horribly compressed media and the dreaded green bubble. A more cynical answer would be that Apple knows iMessage’s platform exclusivity is a great way of retaining users and attracting new ones. It’s a good question, and one that Apple would argue is being answered by its belated embrace of RCS messaging next year. “If Apple truly cares about the privacy and security of their own iPhone users, why would they stop a service that enables their own users to now send encrypted messages to Android users, rather than using unsecure SMS?”, asks Beeper founder Eric Migicovsky to The Verge. ![]() ![]() The irony of all of this is that by integrating directly with Apple, Beeper Mini actually appears more secure than other Android workarounds. ![]()
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