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Beeper Mini is back! Now you can text Apple users via iMessage again
(blog.beeper.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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IDC about the colors, but being able to respond to individual messages within a conversation, being able to edit, and seeing which images a friend responded to is a nice to have. Android does all this stuff too, but until this Beeper app, neither phone OS played nice with the other. So that's why it's nice to have over regular SMS. As for regular email for an ongoing group conversation between friends? What is this, 1999? :P Email is not a good format for instant messaging like text messages are.
Hmm ok. Yeah I'm used to IRC for group chats and I thought there were some hipster counterparts like Matrix that I hadn't tried. I didn't realize iMessage wasn't just SMS with blue bubbles. I still don't understand what it has vs the bazillion other chat apps out there but I guess it's a Steve Jobs thing. Thanks.
People need to agree to download and use the same app, which they don't want to do in my experience.
What it has is that it's the default app on phones and people are lazy to install another one.
It's not about lazy, it's about getting a group of people to agree to download and use the same app, which is harder than it should be.