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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’::Beeper, like Sunbird and Texts, sought to find a way to bring iMessage to Android users. Its app, Beeper Mini, worked well. But a few days after it launched, Apple took steps to shut it down.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i just want to talk to my family on a single non meta owned platform... the only ones to join me on on signal are my dad and my wife, the majority have iphones.

[–] sir_reginald 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what makes you think that Apple is any better than Meta? their "privacy" marketing? I wouldn't believe a single word of it.

Both iMessage and WhatsApp are trash. At least WhatsApp is cross platform.

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

Common advice is if its free then you are the product and the apple does not do free. They dont need to sell data to data companies to turn a profit, which meta and google very much do.

That doesn’t say apple is secure or private. Personally i don’t trust any that ain’t self hosted but i do have a personal ranking, worst to best for tech companies

Meta - Amazon - google - Microsoft- apple