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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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kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social
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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.

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As much as I want it to he open source what could the risks be of apple finding a way to patch any exploits by looking at the open source code

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zeppo@lemmy.world
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I believe it’s a system that uses an actual Mac as a server for relay. Not really a way for them to stop that, and I doubt they care that much since it requires someone to have a Mac.

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key@lemmy.keychat.org
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That’s how Beeper works. Beeper Mini doesn’t do that and instead imitates the Mac software, which is why Apple broke it.

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sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works
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They did. Its called airmessage. Has been around for almost 3 years now

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RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world
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I used airmessage for a while when I was on iOS because I missed able able to message from the web while I was at work.

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sour@kbin.social
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do you need your own server

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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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You need a Mac of some kind, Minis are often used.

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atocci@kbin.social
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Yes.

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