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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by spamalot159 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:22PM (#25851463)
How does your iMessage integration compare to AirMessage?

I've been using AirMessage for a couple months now on my new Android phone and it is about 80% reliable. Images and videos also take significantly longer to processes than if I were to use an iPhone.

I wonder if Beeper would be an upgrade over AirMessage or if it is essentially the same.

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by pseudalopex on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:27PM (#25851529)
Beeper requires a Mac like AirMessage. Or they'll send you a jailbroken iPhone.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by SulfurHexaFluri on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:25AM (#25855761)
How is imessage so hard to reverse engineer that its easier to send someone a jailbroken iphone to use? Surely the protocol can't even change much since many users are stuck on old versions as its part of the OS.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by kevincox on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:19AM (#25859716)
I seem to recall that registering for iMessage requires sending the ID (or a signature maybe?) of real Apple hardware. So you could reverse the API but unless someone has hardware that they don't plan on using iMessage on it won't help much.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by giancarlostoro on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:00PM (#25851928)
How old are these iPhones cause that's the oddest part of that setup I've heard.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by pseudalopex on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:10PM (#25852034)
iPhone 4.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/ericmigi/status/1351934418961661959

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by giancarlostoro on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:53PM (#25852485)
Thanks for that! It's kind of funny to me, but also kind of cool. I guess you just have to be sure to charge the iPhone every now and then.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by pseudalopex on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:55PM (#25852510)
I think the idea is you leave it plugged in at home.
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