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Beeper Mini Is Back (blog.beeper.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] doublejay1999 53 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I can’t see Apple letting this ride

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Which is rich considering they reverse-engineered MS Office formats to get their office suite to work

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is that true? I thought the specs were publicly available

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

AFAIK only the "new" formats are (for the basic apps, the ones ending on x). Apple's office suite is much older than those.

[–] some_designer_dude 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think most if not all of those formats are plaintext? Open a .doc and it’s a heap of garbage XML-like soup.

[–] paf0 2 points 11 months ago

It is now but the older formats used to be more like an executable byte code. Efficient but insecure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Well they've blocked it once. It'll be interesting to watch. Not sure of the legalities. Hard to say.