Full Story: iMessage App for Android Users to be Discontinued in the Near Future
Android users finally got a chance to use iMessage thanks to Beeper Mini, which was able to emulate Apple’s security and privacy standards. The app has been making headlines for the past few weeks, but it looks like the joy is likely to be short-lived.
Beeper Mini’s developers claim to have worked on the iMessage code from scratch, which allowed them to offer an iMessage-like service on Android, but many people didn’t know that it still used an iMessage server.
Apple was able to block Beeper Mini from accessing iMessage, which was resolved several times, but now even the Beeper Mini team has decided that if Apple decides to pull the plug on its app again, that’s the end of the service. and the dream of using iMessage on Android.
To be fair, it was always going to be an uphill battle for one of the biggest companies in the world, and the Beeper Mini recognizes the reality of entering a David vs Goliath series. “As much as we want to fight for what we believe is a fantastic product that really should exist, the truth is that we can’t win a cat-and-mouse game with the biggest company in the world,” the company said in a statement. post this week.
Beeper Mini charged a fee to run the service, which may have annoyed the Apple team running the messaging app. After all, Beeper Mini used iMessage’s network to push content, suggesting to the server that the message be sent via an iOS device.
All said and done, the Beeper Mini seems to have run its course, and when Apple decides to shut down the server again, which will inevitably happen in the next few days, the focus will shift back to using third-party messaging apps. iMessage works on Android, giving Apple another win in the market.
