[hn_throwaway_99]

> I remember doing similar tricks when I was a kid. Nowadays I simply won't even care trying. The problem clearly isn't supposed to be solved this way.

Not to be too harsh (maybe to be somewhat harsh given I had such a distaste for what you wrote?), but why would you post this on a site called Hacker News? I can't think of a better implementation of the "hacker ethos" than this project: look at a hard problem, and when the "straightforward" approach doesn't work, find a workaround.

More to your specific point about "Apple is simply going to pull the plug", there are technical and business reasons why they might not want to, at least not quickly. First, as mentioned in the other Beeper thread, there are lots of older Mac devices without a secure enclave, and breaking Beeper would likely break them as well. Second, from a business and regulatory perspective, Apple might have to do a careful dance regarding how to shut this down without looking blatantly anti-competitive.