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Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android by matsz on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:38AM (#38533173)
Great job! Just from taking a quick look at this, what you have here is much bigger than iMessage itself.

This could literally allow things like Universal Clipboard to work on Linux and Windows - by using the method presented here to access the iCloud Keychain and generating Continuity keys and placing them there - then the iPhone will broadcast its clipboard data encrypted with those keys via BLE. If I understand all of this correctly.

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Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android by crooked-v on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:36PM (#38538983)
I had been wondering where Beeper's route to profitability was, but if they can get Continuity and AirDrop stuff working with Windows that will be an instant no-brainer subscription for a lot of people (including me), so I guess it works out.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android by LectronPusher on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:57AM (#38541477)
It works over wifi, but you might be interested in KDE Connect [1]. It can do clipboard, remote input, file sending, command running, etc. on Windows and Linux.

[1] https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

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Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android by valianteffort on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @05:19PM (#38550293)
Would like to try it out but the developer decided to force sign-in with google and I have removed that from my AOSP build.
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