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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox company Beeper Inc. is an American software company that develops the instant messaging applications Beeper Cloud and Beeper Mini. The company is located in Palo Alto, California.[1]

History

Beeper was founded in 2020 by Eric Migicovsky and Brad Murray.[1][2] Migicovsky is the founder of smartwatch company Pebble.[3]

In 2023, James Gill – a 16-year-old Saucon Valley High School student at the time – reverse engineered Apple's iMessage instant messaging protocol after inspecting the network traffic generated by Apple Music on Windows and by iMessage on macOS. Gill published a proof of concept called Pypush that reimplemented iMessage in the Python programming language and released it on GitHub. After Gill contacted Migicovsky via Discord in August 2023, Migicovsky hired Gill to apply the implementation in Beeper Mini.[4][5][6]

Products

Beeper Cloud

Beeper Cloud, formerly named NovaChat and Beeper, is an instant messaging application that supports a variety of chat services and protocols, including Discord, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, IRC, Matrix, Signal, Skype, Slack, SMS/RCS (via Google Messages), Telegram, and WhatsApp.[3][7][8] The company renamed the app from Beeper to Beeper Cloud upon launching Beeper Mini in December 2023.[9]

Beeper Mini

On December 5, 2023, the company released Beeper Mini, an Android app that can send messages through Apple's iMessage instant messaging service.[6][4] The app was marketed as a way for Android users to communicate with iOS users through chat bubbles that are blue, the color used by Messages – the built-in text messaging app on iPhones – to show texts sent through iMessage.[10] Apple keeps iMessage exclusive to Apple devices and only allows Messages to communicate with Android users through the lesser-featured SMS protocol with texts that are displayed in green chat bubbles, which are disfavored among some iPhone users who perceive them as an indicator of lower social status.[4][11] Beeper Mini uses a reverse-engineered implementation of the iMessage communication protocol that supports some of iMessage's features, including blue chat bubbles and end-to-end encryption.[12]

Beeper Mini was downloaded more than 100,000 times within two days of launch. After the release, Apple repeatedly blocked Beeper Mini from sending messages through iMessage, and Beeper updated the app multiple times to circumvent Apple's blocks.[11] On December 21, 2023, Beeper issued its last update to Beeper Mini, which requires users to access an iOS or macOS device to enable the app to send messages through iMessage.[13]

At the urging of congresspersons Amy Klobuchar, Mike Lee, Jerry Nadler, and Ken Buck,[14] the United States Department of Justice initiated an antitrust investigation on December 22, 2023 to examine Apple's blocking of Beeper Mini.[15]

See also

References

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