4 posts tagged ‘cross platform software’
Everything Big Tech Killed Off in 2023
Gizmodo,
Big Tech went on a murder spree in 2023. We saw the end of many once-loved products and services, all swallowed up into the great dark pit of corporate consolidation. Few companies kept their knives sheathed, and if this year taught us anything, 2024 is likely to be just as bloody. Read more...
Apple Quashes Beeper Mini App to Lord Over the Blue Bubbles
Apple isn’t keen to let just any peasant enter its hallowed and gloried domain of iMessage. The company officially declared it had blocked the Beeper Mini app, which let Android users send blue bubble messages to their friends and family on iPhone by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol. Read more...
Android iMessage-Style Messaging App Sunbird Shuts Down Over Serious Privacy Concerns
This week brought a series of disasters (and quite some embarrassment) to Android messaging apps that were trying hard to break the infamous green-blue bubble barrier between Android and Apple users. It started with the failure of Nothing Chats and recently extended to the shutdown of Sunbird. Read more...
Nothing Phone (2) Offers Possible Solution to Blue, Green Bubble Drama
The mobile class divide between the iPhone blue bubble and the Android green bubble might need regulators to settle things in the future, but Nothing has another solution coming soon. Read more...