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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users (techcrunch.com)
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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Even worse, I can send high quality images and video from android to iPhone if they're both on Verizon. When the iPhone sends it back, it's trashed.

That said, SMS/MMS suck. SMS has a known, published loss of messages at about 12%. What the hell?