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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)
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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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[–] EvokerKing@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They protected their users because if they didn't they wouldn't have users. I have asked plenty of friends why they don't use Android and their response is "it doesn't have iMessage" and that if it did they would switch.

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's so special about iMessage?

[–] TodaviaTyler@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Nothing. iPhone users are just happily married to it. I have family/friends that would switch to a cheaper non-iPhone that performs just as well if they could keep using iMessage.