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A year or so back there was an HN discussion about a service that offered an all-in-one messaging app for most of the major services (including iMessage), but f
by rootusrootus 4y ago
A year or so back there was an HN discussion about a service that offered an all-in-one messaging app for most of the major services (including iMessage), but for the life of me I'm having trouble remembering their name. As I recall, they were using a pile of older iPhones that could still be jailbroken and a custom shim to get messages from the phone to their server. Clever, though that method would eventually hit a wall if jailbreaking stopped being feasible.
- jcomis 4y agoThat was Beeper. https://www.beeper.com/ https://www.beeper.com/ There are a few others like AirDroid out there now too. All are still not really great as if you were on the native platform
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- zamadatix 4y agoThe jailbreak way is more an easy way for you to do it if you want to host it yourself. When you have them do it you're Apple account is signed in on a Mac Mini hosted in a datacenter (not sure if it's theres or through one of the many services to do that through). This is not only much easier to scale but is done in macOS where you can just straight up disable OS security if you tell it you really want to. My iMessage bridge is hosted on "Beeper Mac #84" according to my Apple account page which shows logged in clients.