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Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely::The Apple-versus-Beeper saga is not over yet it seems, even though the iMessage-on-Android Beeper Mini was removed from the Play Store last week. Now,

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What exactly are you implying they should do?

Apple has already agreed to adopt RCS. Although the exact implementation they didn't specify and will likely be "bare minimum".

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Are there any FOSS RCS apps for Android?

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only RCS apps, to my knowledge are Google Messages and Samsung Messages.

Not sure why.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well as I can't use either of those on my degoogled Android device, Apple using RCS is irrelevant, and they should use a more open standard, like Matrix.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Matrix is a terrible standard but otherwise I agree.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you suggest, I was just giving an example.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Signal protocol is probably the best open standard?

Hard to say, they all come with their compromises but Matrix would never work, it's just too slow.

[–] jaschen@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Signal removed it's RCS support:(

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Signal never had RCS support

[–] jaschen@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 months ago

Actually, I was thinking it was RCS. It was regular text messages. Thanks for the correction.

[–] jaschen@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately RCS is on the carrier side. The most basic chat system built in by the phone carrier will likely have RCS.

[–] jaschen@lemmynsfw.com -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Antitrust laws prohibits killing off your competition. Just because they will have RCS, doesn't mean they didn't actively killed beeper.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

LOL that's some impressive mental gymnastics. Beeper is not "competition". If Beeper started their own messaging service, they would be competition. But that's not what they did. They were literally hacking Apple's servers and impersonating Apple devices so that they could use Apple's service, then tried to charge consumers money for the privilege.