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Get your new PebbleOS watch (store.repebble.com)
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[โ€“] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Beeper is an instant messenger software that enables using a variety of chat services and protocols all from the same application. It was created in 2020 by Eric Migicovsky, Brad Murray and Tulir Asokan

On December 5, 2023, the company released Beeper Mini, an Android app that can send messages through Apple's iMessage instant messaging service.

Beeper Mini was downloaded more than 100,000 times within two days of launch. After the release, Apple repeatedly blocked Beeper Mini from sending messages through iMessage, and Beeper updated the app multiple times to circumvent Apple's blocks.[18] On December 21, 2023, Beeper issued its last update to Beeper Mini, which requires users to access an iOS or macOS device to enable the app to send messages through iMessage.[20]

That timeline is crazy. It's a chat app for years. It breaks into iMessage and gets crazy downloads. Then 16 days later they've given up. Four months later he sells the whole thing.

[โ€“] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, he seems to have a bad habit of bailing on his pet projects once they become "difficult" partially because he never seems to have an actual plan to get them to financial stability. It's why I'm so hesitant to have any hopes for this reboot of Pebble after he bailed on it the first time around.