Personally, I wish Beeper would focus on everything other than iMessage. Apple is more curmudgeon about these kinds of things than most companies and what I rea

Personally, I wish Beeper would focus on everything other than iMessage. Apple is more curmudgeon about these kinds of things than most companies and what I really need is a way to get out of the half-dozen other apps everyone wants to chat on: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram Messenger, Discord, Slack, Telegram, etc. If Apple stands alone, I can handle 2 things. I have trouble handling 7+ things. From my perspective, Beeper's iMessage efforts feel wasted. It looks like Apple will roll out RCS next year. Yes, it won't be E2E encrypted initially, but if I'm trusting a third party app I'm kinda loosing that E2E anyway. I trust Beeper, but their app (or an update to it) could start reading the messages on my device and transmit them back to Beeper (or transmit back some profile built from the messages). It also seems likely that the GSM Association will work with Apple on encryption that isn't Google-based for RCS. It might take a couple years, but it seems likely that will happen. I wish Beeper would focus its efforts where it feels like the big payoff would be. Instead, everyone is obsessed with blue bubbles like they're some sort of status symbol. Beeper has been wonderful for other services and it would be great to see them improve those capabilities even further. Instead, they seem to have pivoted to "omg, blue bubbles!" It's always possible that other services could similarly try and ban them, but Beeper hasn't seemed to have much trouble with the other services.