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Beeper Mini team says a fix is ‘coming soon’ and promises to extend users’ free trials (www.engadget.com)
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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 116 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I admire their dedication, but at the same time strongly disagree with asking people to pay money for a service, that's fundamentally based on a hole in a reverse engineered protocol. They won't win this

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm happy to pay to support them.

If you'd rather not pay the Beeper Cloud service is free and all of the matrix bridges it uses are open source.

The source code behind how Beeper Mini works is available as well but will require a client of some sort to be written since you can't just use a matrix bridge and a matrix app.

The guy who started Beeper also created the Pebble Watch and they have always maintained open source alternatives for their bridges.

I'm just happy that a company with those ethics is the one to take up this fight against Apple, this could have been a $10/month app from a company who believes in closed source and pushing ads/tracking users' data.

Beeper is a good company that actually cares about privacy and security and that should be commended.

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

You should look at american legal precedent surrounding reverse engineering. Legally speaking, it's quite hopeful.

[–] paulsmith@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't mind paying $2 a month for Beeper. I've been using it for months to consolidate all of my messaging apps. It's worth $2 a month for me. Beeper Mini is just iMessage, so I don't know if it's worth it for me. They said they'll eventually move all of the other chat services over to Beeper Mini, at which point it will just be Beeper.

[–] kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If the open source community could provide such a thing for free I think they would have done it already?

But presumably they lack the ability, the motivation or both.