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The green bubble stigma faced by Android users who send messages to their friends with iPhones is real—even the U.S. government acknowledges it.Hey Google, Where Did My Watch's Battery Life Go?“Many non-iPhone users… experience social stigma, exclusion, and blame” when messaging people with iPhones, the Department of Justice stated in its landmark antitrust lawsuit against Apple on Thursday. However, the problems go way beyond simply the color of a text message. In the complaint, the DOJ highlighted the friction and…

Beeper for Android has received a complete revamp with the latest update to the app. Android users who download the new application will notice a redesigned interface, and Beeper now offers support for some native features available on Google's mobile operating system. The app has also been optimised for tablets, foldable phones and devices with larger displays. While there's a waitlist for users who sign up to use the service, users can avail of invite codes to skip the line.In a blog post announcing the new version of…

iMessage, once considered an exclusive messaging service for Apple users, was just deemed too lame to regulate by EU officials. The European Commission said it would not regulate iMessage as a “gatekeeper service” on Tuesday, along with Microsoft’s Bing and Edge, which allegedly have a similar level of importance. Oof.Video Chat - From Sci-Fi to Sci-Fact“The Commission found that iMessage, Bing, Edge, and Microsoft Advertising do not qualify as gatekeeper services,” said regulators in a press release Tuesday. “The…

The recent demise of Beeper Mini, a service that allowed Android users to access iMessage, has sparked controversy and drawn the attention of regulators. Initially promising Android users the ability to send “blue bubble” messages from their devices, Beeper Mini utilized a reverse-engineered method to access iMessage without requiring an Apple ID. However, Apple swiftly shut down the service, leading to accusations of anticompetitive behavior. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has now joined the fray, calling for an…

Beeper Mini, a smart way of getting iMessage to work on Android devices, has been hitting dead end after dead end with Apple, but a recent appeal from one FCC member might signal an end to Apple’s messaging exclusivity. Brendan Carr, a lawyer and member of the Federal Communications Commission since 2017, has recently appealed to the Commission and subsequently posted it on X for public support. In this video, he states, “Apple’s wider set of exclusionary practices warrant scrutiny by antitrust and competition…

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said Monday that the agency should investigate Apple over the company’s decision to block the Beeper Mini service, which worked on bringing iMessage to Android. Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky’s Beeper launched a new service called Beeper Mini in December, which claimed to have reverse-engineered the iMessage stack to make it work on Android. The next few days were like a cat-and-mouse game where Apple blocked Beeper Mini repeatedly and the latter tried to find a…

Beeper, the messaging app that attempted to unify various messaging platforms, has officially thrown in the towel in its battle with Apple over iMessage. The company announced on Monday that it is disabling new iMessage connections on Beeper Cloud, essentially marking the end of its services related to iMessage. This decision comes after the company abandoned Beeper Mini, and redirected its focus to the main Beeper app. The move is a response to users being banned from using iMessage on their devices after setting up…

The Beeper Mini iMessage saga seemed to have ended just before Christmas. Beeper offered the final iMessage workaround, which needed an iPhone or Mac in order to get iMessage working on Android. Needless to say, that sort of defeats the purpose, and Beeper confirmed that it would abandon the fight with Apple. “In the new year, we’re shifting focus back to our long-term goal of building the best chat app on Earth,” Beeper said in mid-December. Nearly a month later, it looks like that’s exactly what the company is…

Beeper Mini has been involved in a long-running saga of promising to facilitate iMessage to Android users, getting blocked by Apple, and finding repeated workarounds to make the service work. The messaging platform seems to be running out of options now, as the Beeper Mini app has reportedly been removed from Google Play Store. The latest development follows an announcement from the Beeper team last month that said the app had received its final update, pretty much giving up the fight to make iMessages reliably work on…

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