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0 pointsst3fan2y ago0 comments

> The European Digital Markets Act, which will require chat networks to provide interoperability

I think this would be _fan-tas-tic_. But beeper is not a chat network. It is a company that simply wants to be be the iMessage for Android client, using Apple's network.

Their case would be stronger if they did have their own network and used this reverse engineered iMessage connection to provider interop between the two networks.

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drekk2y ago· 1 in thread

They do have their own network because they integrate more than just iMessage. It's "Apple's network" because Apple won't allow anyone else to run a server. Adversarial interoperability might ruffle some feathers, but we wouldn't have Venmo or any financial apps without it.

They advertise Beeper Mini (the iMessage component) separately from Beeper Cloud at the moment. Probably because of the gray area they're operating in. Completely agree with Beeper's approach though. Defaulting iPhones to SMS whenever an Android device is in the chat makes the network less secure for everyone. I would personally prefer being able to use iMessage with my friends that have Android devices so I wouldn't need a couple of different apps with varying degrees of privacy and security.

st3fanOP2y ago

> They advertise Beeper Mini (the iMessage component) separately from Beeper Cloud at the moment

Replace "component" with "app" and you got it right.

zakki2y ago

Do you mean Beeper's customer can't chat each other? If they can, Beeper has their own chat network, doesn't it?

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