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Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely (techcrunch.com)
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Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely::The Apple-versus-Beeper saga is not over yet it seems, even though the iMessage-on-Android Beeper Mini was removed from the Play Store last week. Now,

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not being remotely pedantic.

Apple reverse-engineered MS standards to improve interoperability so you could open Apple files on Windows and vise versa. They didn't reverse engineer Windows security so that you could open Apple files on MS servers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Apple reverse engineered a file format, Beeper reverse engineered a protocol.

Microsoft made several changes to try to keep Apple out, Apple's also made several changes to keep Beeper out, except now everyone's online so it's happening way faster.

It's not exactly the same kind of reverse engineering, but I never said it was. I think you've got a very narrow definition of reverse engineering in your head and you're quibbling over me using it more broadly than you would.