{"id":31402,"date":"2021-01-21T16:21:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31402"},"modified":"2023-12-06T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:27:26","slug":"beeper-brings-imessage-to-android-and-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/21\/beeper-brings-imessage-to-android-and-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Beeper Brings iMessage to Android and Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/01\/21\/beeper-brings-imessage-to-android-and-windows\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericmigi\/status\/1351932159343292416\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/01\/21\/beeper-brings-imessage-to-android-and-windows\/\"><p>New universal chat app &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeperhq.com\">Beeper<\/a>&rdquo; combines 15 different chat platforms into a single inbox and offers iMessage on Android and Windows (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/1\/21\/22242143\/beeper-universal-chat-app-imessage-whatsapp-signal-telegram-pebble-founder\"><em>The Verge<\/em><\/a>).<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The app is &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericmigi\/status\/1351932357201154048?s=20\">using some trickery<\/a>&rdquo; to achieve this, with the website&rsquo;s FAQ revealing that an always-online Mac running the Beeper app is needed to use as a bridge. Alternately, Beeper will ship a &ldquo;Jailbroken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/iphone\/\">iPhone<\/a> with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage&rdquo; to users unable to use a Mac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/30\/imessage-on-android\/\">iMessage on Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/apple-services-everywhere\/\">Apple Services Everywhere<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"beeper-brings-imessage-to-android-and-windows-update-2021-02-08\">Update (2021-02-08): <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2021\/02\/05\/beeper\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2021\/02\/05\/beeper\">\n<p>The idea of a single app with support for multiple messaging services harks back to <a href=\"https:\/\/adium.im\/\">Adium<\/a>&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;and even Apple&rsquo;s own iChat, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IChat#Supported_protocols\">which supported several services back in the day<\/a> (AIM, Jabber, Yahoo, ICQ, and more). One of Beeper&rsquo;s founders is Eric Migicovsky, who created <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/search\/pebble\">the Pebble smartwatch<\/a> back in 2013. When Beeper was announced two weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericmigi\/status\/1351934418961661959\">he tweeted to confirm that the jailbroken old iPhone trick was no joke<\/a>, with photos.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartley Charlton (tweet): New universal chat app &ldquo;Beeper&rdquo; combines 15 different chat platforms into a single inbox and offers iMessage on Android and Windows (via The Verge).[&#8230;]The app is &ldquo;using some trickery&rdquo; to achieve this, with the website&rsquo;s FAQ revealing that an always-online Mac running the Beeper app is needed to use as a bridge. 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