Beeper Mini Is Back
blog.beeper.com
Bug fixes and other improvements We've created an updated version of Beeper Mini that fixes an issue that caused messages not to be sent or received. You can get the update directly from beeper.com/update on your phone. We are still doing some final testing before submitting the update to the Google Play Store for distribution to all users.
    • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
      28·
      11 months ago

      The security and privacy of Beeper Mini is unchanged. It is still local, end-to-end encrypted on your device, as we described in our post.

      what “they’ve been doing for several years” was relaying messages through Mac VMs, if I’m not mistaken, so it’s not exactly the same.

      • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOP
        8·
        11 months ago

        And the following as well:

        Phone number registration is not working yet. All users must now sign in with an AppleID. Messages will be sent and received via your email address rather than phone number. We’re currently working on a fix for this.

          • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
            17·
            11 months ago

            Do they really think they can “beat” some of the best programmers in the world that actually controls the servers their service is dependent on?

            Compaq “beat” IBM.

            Apple can only change the iMessage protocol itself very slowly if they don’t want to break service for millions of older iPhones. Beeper Mini can and will change on a dime. The cat and mouse can only go so far before Apple run out of ways to try to fuck them over that don’t fuck over millions of legitimate users.