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…
Apple may have already killed Android’s newest iMessage app, Beeper Mini
Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends The inevitable has happened, it seems. Beeper Mini, the reverse-engineered app that brought iMessage to Android with a blue bubble hack, has apparently run into…
Beeper Mini Rules, But It Doesn’t Solve Android’s Messaging Problem
Note: As I was getting ready to publish this piece, Beeper’s servers began faltering. TechCrunch reports that Beeper Mini had lost access to Apple’s servers, though I’m still able to…
WhatsApp Will No Longer Butcher Image Quality on iOS
Image: Photo: Eliseu Geisler / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) (Shutterstock) You no longer have to worry about sending low-quality images on WhatsApp. Well, at least on iPhone. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp’s latest…
Google Celebrates 1 Billion RCS Users with With a Feature Drop for Green Bubbles
Google’s bet on RCS is paying off, or at least that’s what it wants us to think. After a few minor wins, including Apple quietly confirming RCS support in the…
Google Celebrates 1 Billion RCS Users With a Feature Drop for Green Bubbles
Google’s bet on RCS is paying off, or at least that’s what it wants us to think. After a few minor wins, including Apple quietly confirming RCS support in the…
Android iMessage-Style Messaging App Sunbird Shuts Down Over Serious Privacy Concerns
Image: Sunbird 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…
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…
The Next iPhone Will Have an Easier Time Texting Android’s Green Bubbles
Will Android and Apple ever play nice?Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo Could it be? Is Apple finally relenting and letting Android users frolic in its walled garden? 9to5Mac reports that…
It’s finally happening — your iPhone is getting RCS in 2024
Joe Maring / Digital Trends Today is a day I truly didn’t expect would ever happen. On November 16, 2023, Apple officially confirmed that RCS texting is finally coming to the iPhone…