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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by adrr on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:47PM (#26974651)
Cost of iMessage is built into the price of the iPhone and other apple products. Why would they pay to develop and maintain it for other devices? Apple doesn’t monetize their data like other messaging services/social networks. If apple charged $3/m for iMessage on Android would you pay it?
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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by room500 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:24PM (#26975004)
Yes. I prefer Android phones, but I don't want my choice of phone to impact the communication between my friends and family.

The only reason I consider getting an iPhone is for iMessage. I would gladly pay a monthly fee so I could use the phone I want AND communicate freely with the people in my social circles.

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by endisneigh on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:56PM (#26976929)
You're in luck:

https://www.beeper.com/

$10/month and you get your iMessage on Android.

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by room500 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:23PM (#26986236)
Thanks for the link. It looks interesting.

I would be willing to pay $10 if the solution wasn't so hacky... Maintaining a system solely to run unsupported software (in a way that I would have to imagine is against ToS somewhere) is just too risky to handle a critical piece of my communication. I can't drop a message - especially if my excuse for dropping messages is "the laptop in the corner of my closet had to install a security update and restarted on me"

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by vips7L on Thursday April 29, 2021 @01:04PM (#26983703)
> Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage

How do they make money doing this?

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by jonplackett on Thursday April 29, 2021 @08:42AM (#26980414)
someone needs to make a website hasbeeperbeenshutdownbyappleyet.com
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