The IT Nerd

After the security disaster that was Sunbird, another iMessage on Android app has appeared. Called Beeper Mini, this app gives Android users most of the blue bubble experience because the people behind this have reversed engineered how iMessage works. And another plus is that unlike Sunbird, you don’t have to hand over your Apple ID to some sketchy service. Though you can do that if you chose to do so.

YouTube channel Snazzy Labs did do a deep dive into this. Here’s the video:

Now while the video does point out that it would be difficult for Apple to kill this, you can bet that Apple will try to find a way to kill this. Be it via changing something in iMessage, or by suing the company out of existence. Apple has demonstrated that the blue bubble/green bubble thing is something that they are perfectly fine with. And anything that threatens that is something that Apple will try to dispatch with extreme prejudice. Thus while it appears that this app is fully functional, it may not stay that way for long. On top of that, there’s got to be some security concerns of some sort. Apparently the company behind Beeper Mini is willing to have security experts poke around to see what they can find, but what happens if they find something that the company can’t fix, or exposes uses to some degree of risk? That’s a bit of an open question.

Beeper Mini is available for download starting today with a 7-day free trial before the app costs $2/month. But before you rush out and get it, I would suggest waiting for security researchers to poke at this app just in case it turns out that it’s some degree of a security nightmare like Sunbird was. Assuming that Apple doesn’t find some way to kill it first.

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