Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by pdntspa on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:07PM
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God I really wish we Americans would get on whatsapp
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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by sentientslug on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:13PM
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No thanks, iMessage is much better and not owned by Facebook.
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by etrautmann on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:30PM
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My sense is that zeitgeist has shifted on this in the last year no?
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by umanwizard on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:49PM
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In what way?
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by gardenhedge on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:35PM
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How is iMessage better? WhatsApp is a great app.
Apple's business model is predicated on me buying things from them.
Facebook's business model is predicated on being able to sell access to me to third parties.
I can control the first one directly.
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by gardenhedge on Sunday December 10, 2023 @06:07AM
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That is not related to how the app works though
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by 123sereusername on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:15PM
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Damn Straight.
It's owned by Apple. Thats not better. Same shit, other asshole.
So I can give my data to Meta? No thanks.
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by etrautmann on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:30PM
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It felt like most of the US was on whatsapp and then everyone moved to signal and telegram
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by ivanjermakov on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:29PM
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I don't consider any of these as a viable option.
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by umanwizard on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:16PM
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Why? What is so great about it? It seems practically identical to signal and, if everyone is already on iOS, strictly worse than iMessage.
Runs on android, windows, web, macOS, iOS.
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by umanwizard on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:26PM
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So does signal.
Sure, and telegram does too. I was responding to someone talking about iMessage
I can’t really tell the difference between signal telegram teams discord et al.
But messages falls back to sms and that I can notice.
I can't find a web client?
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by umanwizard on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:48PM
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Guess you’re right.
Tried it in the early days where Whatsapp was buyed by facebook.
Signal lost messages in group chats, Signal lost messages in normal chats.
Thats was the way to my blacklist. Droped Signal caused by unreliability.
Additionally, same as now iMessage, close out of other clients. Other asshole, same shit.
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by dgellow on Saturday December 09, 2023 @11:08AM
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> Tried it in the early days where Whatsapp was buyed by facebook.
Wasn't that in 2014, so literally 9 years ago? Things are pretty different now.
Signal group chats are shit by comparison.
British-American here. WhatsApp is very good despite its owners. Way better than anything else which is why we continue to use it for group chats.
There’s no other good group chat encrypted option for both iPhone and Android.
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by zoklet-enjoyer on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:23PM
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I've been using Signal since it was Text Secure and Red Phone. I've got most of my friend group switched over to it