Beeper Takes Down Beeper Mini App From Google Play Store After iMessage Saga: Report

Beeper Mini has been concerned in a long-running saga of promising to facilitate iMessage to Android customers, getting blocked by Apple, and discovering repeated workarounds to make the service work. The messaging platform appears to be working out of choices now, because the Beeper Mini app has reportedly been faraway from Google Play Store. The newest growth follows an announcement from the Beeper group final month that stated the app had obtained its closing replace, just about giving up the battle to make iMessages reliably work on Android telephones.

According to a report from 9to5Google, the standalone Beeper Mini app, which permits blue bubbles iMessage texting on Android telephones, has been faraway from the Play Store. The Beeper group introduced the choice formally Thursday by way of a message to Beeper Cloud customers.

The iMessage characteristic from Beeper Mini has additionally been moved to the ‘Labs’ part within the Beeper Cloud app. “We have moved iMessage to ‘Labs’ in Beeper Cloud and removed Beeper Mini from the Play Store,” the message to Beeper Cloud customers reportedly stated. While the Beeper Mini app is not accessible to obtain from Google’s storefront, it may possibly nonetheless be sideloaded by way of the apk file accessible on the Beeper web site. Beeper Cloud remains to be accessible on the Play Store.

Additionally, Eric Migicovsky, the cofounder of Beeper additionally supplied additional replace on the corporate’s roadmap within the announcement message. According to the report, the corporate is working so as to add 14 different chat networks to the Beeper Mini Android app, which it calls its number one precedence. “It’s a completely new app, with a new design, built for top speed and performance,” the message reportedly added. The firm additionally stated that enhancements to the Beeper desktop app are on the way in which, together with a efficiency enhance.

Last month, Beeper introduced a closing replace for the Mini app on its weblog. After a number of workarounds and fixes to get iMessage working stably on Android telephones, the corporate admitted that its efforts have been “unsustainable” in the long run. The firm stated it was not going to challenge fixes for its app if Apple have been to disrupt the service. “As much as we want to fight for what we believe is a fantastic product that really should exist, the truth is that we can’t win a cat-and-mouse game with the largest company on earth,” the Beeper group stated.

Apple, which has consistently blocked Beeper’s efforts to run iMessage on Android telephones, has claimed that the Beeper Mini app poses “significant risks to user security and privacy.” The Beeper group, nevertheless, denies that declare, accusing Apple as an alternative of monopolising the iMessage service to promote extra iPhone.

Earlier in December 2023, Beeper Mini, after launching, getting blocked by Apple, and discovering a workaround, introduced that its new repair to run iMessage on Android telephones would require Beeper customers to entry a Mac for registration.