There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works
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The question is how long Apple will let it.

• A new Android app called Beeper Mini allows users to send iMessages as blue bubbles from non-Apple devices.

• Beeper Mini bypasses traditional iMessage hacks by directly sending iMessages from Android devices.

• The app has been praised for its smooth functionality, sending messages seamlessly between Android and iPhone users.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    374·
    11 months ago

    Because Apple decided all media over SMS should be sent in a shitty downgraded form.

    This is all on Apple wanting to make iMessage look better than SMS, and Apple look better than everyone else (and to be fair, iMessage is the right approach to the SMS issue, just not as a walled-garden version).

    iOS can’t send hi quality videos or images over SMS. It’s a choice made by Apple.

    I can send large videos (more than 50mb, for sure) over SMS from my Android phone on Verizon to a Verizon iPhone. They receive it in same quality. When they send it back, the iPhone butchers it.

    Verizon, unlike other carriers, doesn’t seem to have an MMS size limit.

    So Apple and carriers are to blame for this.