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Beeper Mini Is Back (blog.beeper.com)
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[โ€“] qwrty@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Considering they directly communicate with Apples servers and make money from that...

But, isn't that what APIs do? Why would that get Beeper in legal trouble if they are paying their license fee? I'm not being facetious, genuinely curious.

[โ€“] Azzu@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

There is no public iMessage API that people can pay to use. Beeper (or rather the code it's based on) reverse-engineered the iMessage protocol and server APIs and they simply make the same requests as the iMessage app on iOS would.