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Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely (techcrunch.com)
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Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely::The Apple-versus-Beeper saga is not over yet it seems, even though the iMessage-on-Android Beeper Mini was removed from the Play Store last week. Now,

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe somewhere, but where I lived everybody moved to Skype. It was technologically full of wizardry to make it work on bad channels, had fast file transfers, convenient GUI, groups (which ICQ didn't have, but everybody would just use web forums or web chats or, ah, IRC).

Some time ago I recovered my Skype history, googled how to retrieve it and read it from those files. I cringed so hard.