{"id":1212242,"date":"2023-12-14T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212242"},"modified":"2023-12-14T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T19:59:07","slug":"apple-partly-halts-beepers-imessage-app-again-suggesting-a-long-fight-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212242","title":{"rendered":"Apple partly halts Beeper\u2019s iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/beeper_group_chat-800x475-1.png\" alt=\"Beeper group chat illustration\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/beeper_group_chat.png\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"600\" data-width=\"1010\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> The dream of everybody having blue bubbles, and epic photos of perfectly digestible meals, as proffered by Beeper. (credit: Beeper)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A friend of mine had been using <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/12\/beeper-mini-on-android-claims-to-have-reverse-engineered-imessage-compatibility\/\">Beeper&#8217;s iMessage-for-Android app, Beeper Mini<\/a> to keep up on group chats where she was the only Android user. It worked great until last Friday, when <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/12\/beeper-minis-imessage-app-for-android-is-broken-possibly-by-apple\/\">it didn&#8217;t work at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What stung her wasn&#8217;t the return to being the Android interloper in the chats again. It wasn&#8217;t the resulting lower-quality images, loss of encryption, and strange &#8220;Emphasized your message&#8221; reaction texts. It was losing messages during the outage and never being entirely certain they had been sent or received. There was a gathering on Saturday, and she had to double-check with a couple people about the details after showing up inadvertently early at the wrong spot.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of grievance is why, after Apple on Wednesday appeared to have blocked what Beeper described as &#8220;~5% of Beeper Mini users&#8221; from accessing iMessages, both co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericmigi\/status\/1735131934484029914\">Eric Migicovksy<\/a> and the app told users <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/onbeeper\/status\/1735315504880123995\">they understood if people wanted out<\/a>. The app had already suspended its plans to charge customers $1.99 per month, following the first major outage. But this was something more about &#8220;how ridiculously annoying this uncertainty is for our users,&#8221; Migicovsky posted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1991118#p3\">Read 11 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1991118&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1991118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple partly halts Beeper\u2019s iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The dream of everybody having blue bubbles, and epic photos of perfectly digestible meals, as proffered by Beeper. (credit: Beeper) A friend of mine had been using Beeper&#8217;s iMessage-for-Android app, Beeper Mini to keep up on group chats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212242\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1212242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}