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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by JumpCrisscross on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:56PM (#38577587)
> One of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's first projects was selling blue boxes

Which didn’t scale because it doesn’t scale because the blue box stopped working. Sort of like Beeper.

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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by lofaszvanitt on Saturday December 09, 2023 @02:08AM (#38579414)
Beeper's true purpose was to show people that it's possible without an iPhone. What you don't know how many other clients like this worked and for how long...
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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by latexr on Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:31AM (#38581007)
> Beeper's true purpose was to show people that it's possible without an iPhone.

What’s your basis for saying that? Honestly asking. Seems like Beeper’s true purpose could just as well have been to make money.

Of course this is possible without an iPhone. Apple could build it anytime they want, they just don’t. Which I disagree with, but that’s a different argument.

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