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After Apple shut down the mechanism that Android app Beeper Mini was using to bring iMessage to Android users, Beeper Mini's developers today said that they have found a way to bring the app back, ...

Beeper Mini was a huge deal in the fight to bring iMessage to Android, but Apple swiftly turned the reverse-engineered method into an inconsistent experience for users. Beeper’s current plan to ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

The messaging experience is one of the main points of contention in the iOS/Android conflicts, which are as old as their parent companies. iPhone-to-Android texting is not very seamless, especially ...

The universal chat app Beeper just got a lot more, well, universal. The company just unveiled the Beeper Mini app, which makes the bold claim to bring true iMessage support to Android devices. Even ...

Meta's new AI-powered Ray-Bans can't send iMessages due to Apple's API restrictions. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth blamed Apple for that.

If you’re one of Apple’s 1.3 billion iMessage users, then these are worrying times. Alarming new security warnings have been made worse by Apple’s awkward silence. And now WhatsApp has suddenly issued ...

Usually, when my friends hype up Apple’s iMessage, all they care about is showing up as blue bubbles on each other’s screens. And, for most people, that’s good enough — they want to include all of ...

I suppose it was clear all along that iMessage was one of the biggest factors locking iPhone users to the iOS ecosystem, but it's still quite shocking to see Apple executives talking so openly about ...

A nightmare few weeks for Apple when it comes to iMessage has suddenly become much worse. Confusion reigns about whether major security issues have been fixed—is your iMessage safe or not? And now ...

If you use both an Android phone and Apple devices, an Apple service usually irrelevant to your cross-platform life can quietly make a mess of your messages. For people who stick to iPhones, iPads and ...