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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    10 months ago

    Antitrust laws prohibits killing off your competition. Just because they will have RCS, doesn’t mean they didn’t actively killed beeper.

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      10 months ago

      LOL that’s some impressive mental gymnastics. Beeper is not “competition”. If Beeper started their own messaging service, they would be competition. But that’s not what they did. They were literally hacking Apple’s servers and impersonating Apple devices so that they could use Apple’s service, then tried to charge consumers money for the privilege.