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by nicce 907 days ago
> "Fair" or "unfair", what is the crime? Your intuition pump doesn't include enough details to be useful, I don't understand it.

Beeper does not talk only to Apple devices but also to other Beeper clients. There is no authorization by Apple to use their backends, and they are not sharing any revenue from their business, while Apple funds all the million messages.

CCFA covers the value gain, should be less than 5000 in one year, what I doubt is happening here.

I am not even sure if they are authorized in any point, because they violate ToS. Technically they fake authorization by preventing to be something other than they are, and not authorized by the terms and conditions.

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> while Apple funds all the million messages.

A text message is, on the high side, 1000 bytes, so a million messages is <1GB. For reference paying $0.09/GB for bandwidth is considered a high price.

This is not a number which is literally zero, but it's a number which rounds to zero.