Opinion: Beeper isn't just fighting Apple, it's pushing against human instincts.
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It wasn’t the resulting lower-quality images, loss of encryption, and strange “Emphasized your message” reaction texts.

There was a gathering on Saturday, and she had to double-check with a couple people about the details after showing up inadvertently early at the wrong spot.

Migicovsky pointed to Epic’s victory at trial against Google’s Play Store (“big tech”) as motivation.

Citing privacy, security, and spam concerns, Apple stated it would “continue to make updates in the future” to protect users.

I asked Migicovsky by direct message if, given Apple’s stated plan to continually block it, there could ever be a point at which Beeper’s access was “settled,” or “back up and running,” as he put it in his post on X (formerly Twitter).

“Us,” he clarified, meant both Apple’s customers using iMessage and Android users trying to chat securely with iPhone friends.


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