Crazy that the CEO even tried to create an entire company based on something that they absolutely cannot control. Was this an acquisition play?
Been using it a while now, pretty good.
This was a proof of concept to expand that app, it's not the entire company
There's always a possibility of me being wrong! It does look like a bit of a pivot doesn't it.. Good point, well made.
I think I'll go double check I can still log in to my chat apps directly just in case haha
Even without iMessages, a fully local application like this would be a great product. The fact that it relied on their servers put me off of using Beeper cloud
> Our long term vision is to build a universal chat app (https://blog.beeper.com/p/were-building-the-best-chat-app-on). Over the next few months, we will be adding support for SMS/RCS, WhatsApp, Signal and 12 other chat networks into Beeper Mini. At that point, we’ll drop the `Mini` postfix. We’re also rebuilding our Beeper Desktop and iOS apps to support our new ‘client-side bridge’ architecture that preserves full end-to-end encryption. We’re also renaming our first gen apps to ‘Beeper Cloud’ to more clearly differentiate them from Beeper Mini.
Beeper the company also has Beeper (Cloud) which bridges a whole lot of chat apps via Matrix to their other client app, including iMessage via a Mac relay.
“Apple and Google want you to use their app stores in this way.”
…they want you to use their app stores, their way, because they retain 100% control of what you can and cannot do.
It’s impossible to avoid relying on other people’s platforms. (Unless you want approximately zero customers, I guess) I wish these monopolistic corps didn’t have such an iron grip, but I’m not demanding creators single handedly remove every dependency on them. There is no ethical consumption (or production) in late stage capitalism.