{"id":1208875,"date":"2023-12-05T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1208875"},"modified":"2023-12-05T10:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T15:00:47","slug":"beeper-mini-for-android-sends-and-receives-imessages-no-mac-server-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1208875","title":{"rendered":"Beeper Mini for Android sends and receives iMessages, no Mac server required"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> A Pixel 3, messaging a savvy iPhone owner, one with the kinds of concerns Beeper hopes to resolve for its customers. (credit: Kevin Purdy)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Sending an iMessage without an Apple device isn’t entirely new, but this way of doing it is. I didn’t hand over my Apple credentials or log in with my Apple ID on a Mac server on some far-away rack. I put my primary SIM card in the Pixel, I installed Beeper Mini<\/a>, and it sent a text message to register my number with Apple. I never gave Beeper Mini my Apple ID.<\/p>\n

From then on, my iPhone-toting friends who sent messages to my Pixel 3 saw them as other-iPhone blue, not noticeably distracting green. We could all access the typing, delivered\/read receipts, emoji reactions, and most other iPhone-to-iPhone message features. Even if I had no active Apple devices, it seems, I could have chosen to meet Apple users where they were and gain end-to-end encryption by doing so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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