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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months 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.