5 posts tagged ‘instant messaging clients’
Apple Quashes Beeper Mini App to Lord Over the Blue Bubbles
Gizmodo,
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's Failed iMessages Workaround Was Too Good To Be True
Last week was certainly exciting for the prospect of green and blue bubbles finding peace and harmony in the chat realm, though that excitement was a bit premature in Nothing’s case. Read more...
The Next iPhone Will Have an Easier Time Texting Android's Green Bubbles
Could it be? Is Apple finally relenting and letting Android users frolic in its walled garden? 9to5Mac reports that an Apple spokesperson has revealed that RCS support is on the docket for next year’s iPhone launch. That means more parity for Android users’ messages to iPhone wielders. 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...