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Beeper’s push for iMessage on Android is really over (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No matter what the technical reality of Beeper was, this was like claiming God couldn't kick you out of Heaven if they wanted to.

Apple has army of devs, a bottomless wallet, and is extremely petty and controlling about their garden. If you found a hole in the wall, they'd go as far as to build a whole new wall just to stop you. And they can do that, because it's their garden. You have no power there.

I support what Beeper tried to do, but it was never going to work. Apple's garden needs regulation to crack open, you can't do it with software.