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Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage,

UPDATE: Beeper, through their Twitter account, is saying that they’re working on it and “hope to have good news to share soon”:

Work continues to fix the issue causing the Beeper Mini outage. We know how hard this has been for those who loved using Beeper Mini, and we’re extremely sorry for the inconvenience. We are feeling good, though, and hope to have good news to share soon.

  • Mananers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    11 months ago

    Technically apple users can fix the quality issue with a change in their settings to stop compression of images sent via MMS.

    As to android phones not having high quality, your def right about that. The RCS rollout was terrible. But most of the flagship devices have RCS and a lot more carriers are allowing it (here in Canada at least. I assume we’re behind the curve though)

    Samsung has enabled RCS down to even their cheapest handsets, (I believe) but apple isn’t adopting that till next year, and then we’ll be able to skip the shenanigans

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      11 months ago

      MMS? Now that’s a term I haven’t heard in 15 years. American texting is so weird.

      • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        Betweeen newer androids it’s RCS now and between Apple devices it’s imessage so it’s only going between the two because Apple refuses to bridge the gap because people are so used to that setup. However now a lot of my friends, coworkers and neighbors have Telegram now so don’t need to worry about the specific device.