For me, it's less about craving a specific service, and more about watching tech drama and idealism at war.
Re:Beeper Mini is back
by standardUser on Monday December 11, 2023 @03:06PM
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Gatekeeping iMessage has become one of the most despised facets of Apple's many gatekeeping techniques, primarily because of widespread bullying.
Bingo. I was excluded from a group chat of ~15 people because I was the only one without iMessage.
Eventually they included me. I showed one of them the chat in Google Messages and he was amazed at how nice it looked, since Android supports Apple reactions. They're also jealous of all the emojis I can react with (and I admit I do it just to rub it in their face).
I saw the announcement on Twitter and came over here to talk about it. People are really excited about Beeper.
Re:Beeper Mini is back
by meowtimemania on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:16PM
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I’m not excited about beeper but am excited about the drama around beeper!
I'm trying to understand what the target of this hacky iMessage spin-off of Beeper is. The whole idea of subscription-based monetization. Rather no way of Apple not patching quickly, dealing with this as soon as it raises attention.
But maybe that was the intent of a hack they found? A clever marketing strategy, to gain some rapid traction with the controversy, highlighting their project?