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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)
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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’::Beeper, like Sunbird and Texts, sought to find a way to bring iMessage to Android users. Its app, Beeper Mini, worked well. But a few days after it launched, Apple took steps to shut it down.

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i just want to talk to my family on a single non meta owned platform... the only ones to join me on on signal are my dad and my wife, the majority have iphones.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    what makes you think that Apple is any better than Meta? their "privacy" marketing? I wouldn't believe a single word of it.

    Both iMessage and WhatsApp are trash. At least WhatsApp is cross platform.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Common advice is if its free then you are the product and the apple does not do free. They dont need to sell data to data companies to turn a profit, which meta and google very much do.

    That doesn’t say apple is secure or private. Personally i don’t trust any that ain’t self hosted but i do have a personal ranking, worst to best for tech companies

    Meta - Amazon - google - Microsoft- apple

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