• habanhero@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The tech is pretty interesting but the business is sus…It’s kind of like selling fake admissions to a club and calling that a startup.

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      1 year ago

      $2 a month to use Apple’s server infrastructure*. That’s 24x more expensive than WhatsApp, back when they were still independent and ran all their own servers.

      * Beeper technically runs their own push servers, but that’s very minimal and they can even be disabled and not used at all

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        1 year ago

        The product Beeper is selling is essentially access to “blue bubbles” and iMessage without having to pay the price of admission (i.e., owning an iDevice and working with Apple). That’s the part that’s shady and sus. What they are paying or saving on infrastructure cost is irrelevant - they are basically still running a counterfeit operation, doesn’t matter what their costs are.

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        1 year ago

        The push servers are required for beeper Mini, because it acts as a gateway between GCM and ANP.

        Beeper Cloud uses Mac Minis, and Beeper posted the software on github so you can self host it.

        The two apps work very differently.

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          1 year ago

          Now I swear, right before I deleted it, that Beeper Mini had a “use push notifications” switch in its Settings screen. I assumed that would require you to manually open the app every time you really wanted to check.