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There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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• A new Android app called Beeper Mini allows users to send iMessages as blue bubbles from non-Apple devices.

• Beeper Mini bypasses traditional iMessage hacks by directly sending iMessages from Android devices.

• The app has been praised for its smooth functionality, sending messages seamlessly between Android and iPhone users.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Doesn't iMessage require some sort of Apple-issued device id? A key, unique to a device, hard-coded in the SoC? (which is easy to block if over-used).

Which is why hackintoshes used to require crazy workarounds to get this working, even with Apple's own software, if I remember correctly (never tried myself, could be wrong).

How did they get around this? (did they?)

[–] ilinamorato 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does, the article actually mentions that. Yes, they did get around or reverse-engineer it. The article does not describe how, though I imagine it's doing the same sort of workaround that Hackintoshes have to do. Honestly, it's quite a feat.

[–] Rootiest 1 points 11 months ago

Check out my reply

I posted some links that get into the details of how the tech works

[–] Rootiest 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, the second link talks about this in the "data.plist" and Mac serial numbers section.