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The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

    • Gogo Sempai@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 年前

      They should add login and subscription handling on their website as well like so many do, with 30% off on the subscription fee because there’d be no Google tax.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      2 年前

      Is it just you can’t pay for the subscription or the notification process (MicroG GCM) doesn’t work?

      • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 年前

        Looks like both. Beeper mini (and a lot of other apps) ask the play store if the user paid for the app, which is a heavily pretexts part of goggles services… so using non-Google services means I can’t sign into beeper mini at all. They can’t prove I paid for it, especially since I don’t have a Google account at all.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

          Oh, so no Google account. Yea, looks like Beeper Mini relies on GCM, so without an account there’s no way to notify you that messages are to be retrieved.

          I was really wondering if the issue was MicroG.

          Hopefully the devs will be willing to work on using a notification process outside of GCM, even if that means polling by Beeper, once they get to a level of stability.

          Though I think they’ll likely work on integrating other messengers first.