Beeper vs. iMessage is a fight about how tech works —and who’s really in charge
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#6H34D)
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Sometimes there's the world you wish existed, and there's the world as it is.
Over the last week, Apple and the messaging app Beeper have been locked in a battle for users' souls and security. The bones of the story are this: Beeper released a new app, Beeper Mini, that cleverly made use of Apple's iMessage protocols to allow you to send blue-bubble, encrypted messages from an Android phone. Apple swiftly shut it down. Beeper spent a few days getting a somewhat less impressive version of Beeper Mini running again. It probably won't last.
What's odd about this story is that you have two sides completely at odds, both saying entirely correct things. Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky has been telling anyone who will listen that SMS is insecure,...