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Apparently:

How in the world did you get iMessage to work on Android and Windows? This was a tough one to figure out! Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage, or if they have a Mac that is always connected to the internet, they can install the Beeper Mac app which acts as a bridge.

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Hmmm, you could pretty easily spin up a Mac container with the Beeper app and then remote into that from your phone. Seems like a lot of work.

Still, it seems like they didn't really dodge anything at all. It's the same gripe I had with Signal: if I have to switch between iMessage and Signal, then I'll never be able to sell Signal to my family.

I'm not sure if this project will go any further, nor if iMessage works inside here, but this is an easier way forward:

https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap

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