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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by threeseed on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:26PM (#38576841)
They didn't spend much time building this feature.

It was an acquihire involving a 16 year old who was doing it for fun.

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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by singpolyma3 on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:49PM (#38577028)
Except they didn't hire him? He gave them some kind of info about the sms verifications, which they then had their devs implement.
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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by selectodude on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:59PM (#38577109)
The Github page for the iMessage hack said something about Beeper "acquiring" it. Not entirely sure what that means in practice since it was open source code on Github.
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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by kyawzazaw on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:28PM (#38577844)
They contracted him
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