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by dilly_li 1969 days ago
"Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage, or if they have a Mac that is always connected to the internet, they can install the Beeper Mac app which acts as a bridge."

This answers my question! One iPhone for each Beeper user, no wonder the $10 monthly fee!
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GekkePrutser 1969 days ago
Not necessarily. In Europe we don't really use iMessage much. I would have no need for it personally.
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sor1nmarkov 1969 days ago
Massive generalisation about Europe I and most people I know use it.
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Liquid_Fire 1969 days ago
It's true, though. iMessage requires an Apple device, and Apple simply doesn't have a lot of market share in Europe (around 30% for iOS, less for macOS). So most people don't have access to iMessage.
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GekkePrutser 1969 days ago
Yeah that's what I meant, they don't have the critical mass to really put it on the map here. It falls back to SMS for Android recipients of course, but group chats and pictures/video are out of the question.

So in practice nobody in my circle uses it whereas Whatsapp is huge (still). I don't have iOS but I would notice if I got SMSes. The only ones I still get are insecure 2FA and spam.

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