Re:Beeper acquired by Automattic (WordPress)
by talldayo on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @05:57PM
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Beeper's solution didn't overhelp themselves to Apple's infrastructure, though. They used iMessage like a legitimate user would, and then charged customers for the automation. If that's leeching, then thousands of iOS and Mac users around the world are also leeching off Apple's service too.
I won't contest that it's Apple's decision how to present iMessage. The idea that Beeper killed iMessage spoofing is a hysterical assertion though, when people will readily admit that it was Apple's double-standard keeping it alive in the first place.
They don't need to claim any damages, this is not a legal question, they can just close the loopholes.
> the only thing they did "wrong" was sell a solution to an Apple-designed problem.
No, the issue is not that they are "solving an Apple-designed problem" (whatever that problem may be), it's that they did it by leeching off of Apple's infrastructure.