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Beeper Mini team says a fix is ‘coming soon’ and promises to extend users’ free trials (www.engadget.com)
submitted 11 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

If the open source community could provide such a thing for free I think they would have done it already?

But presumably they lack the ability, the motivation or both.

[–] sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They did. Its called airmessage. Has been around for almost 3 years now

[–] sour@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

do you need your own server

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

You need a Mac of some kind, Minis are often used.

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I used airmessage for a while when I was on iOS because I missed able able to message from the web while I was at work.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

As much as I want it to he open source what could the risks be of apple finding a way to patch any exploits by looking at the open source code

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I believe it’s a system that uses an actual Mac as a server for relay. Not really a way for them to stop that, and I doubt they care that much since it requires someone to have a Mac.

[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's how Beeper works. Beeper Mini doesn't do that and instead imitates the Mac software, which is why Apple broke it.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I thought they meant airmessage.