Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...
The idea of an iMessage app for Android has been a dream for years, but with Apple now adopting RCS, it also feels like something we’ll never see happen. But the folks over at Beeper have been working ...
This is evidence that Android and ‌iPhone‌ customers "desperately want to be able to chat together" with all of the features available on iMessage. The reason for its success is clear: Android and ...
Beeper Mini has a new “fix” coming for its broken iMessage on Android integration. However, the new method requires Mac access to send (and intermittently resend) “registration data” from an ...
It's almost 2024, which means iMessage will soon be 13 years old. iMessage is easily one of Apple's best products, a secure and private mobile chat app that everyone in the industry wants to emulate ...
Apple's pseudo-social monopoly in messaging through iMessage purportedly gives iPhone users a better experience. Beeper is trying to bring Android into the fold. Imad was a senior reporter covering ...
In the past week, I have sent an iMessage to one friend from a command-line Python app and to another from a Pixel 3 Android phone. Sending an iMessage without an Apple device isn't entirely new, but ...
Multi-platform messaging startup Beeper, founded by YC and Pebble alum Eric Migicovsky, delivered an iMessage experience for Android that doesn’t use any intermediaries and, as such, should be (always ...
Beeper Mini is working again, but you’ll need to be okay with sending blue bubbles from your Apple ID email address. How long until Apple shuts down this workaround? Beeper Mini is working again, but ...
A few days ago, the mobile app Beeper Mini went back into operation after an attempt by Apple to shut down its service that brings iMessage’s blue bubble texts to Android users. Now, Apple is again ...
Over the past several weeks, iMessage for Android has been a big topic of discussion and, for many, it comes back to why Android users seem to want iMessage so much. Personally, I don’t. iMessage for ...
On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the recent controversy around Android apps that seek to enable iMessage functionality. The app's developers used reverse-engineered iMessage ...