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I want to try it, but I don't want to become dependent on it if it will transition to a paid product in the future (It's cool, but I probably wouldn't pay for i

• ajross 3y ago
  That's a reasonable concern, but in practice the likelihood of the product being killed by malicious counterinteroperability games by Apple (and the other proprietary backents too) is far higher than the chance you'll be screwed by the manufacturer. Beeper isn't in a business that's every going to make them significant money. Their core value proposition is, ironically, that reverse engineering iMessage is "just hard enough". If it becomes too hard, they fail. But if it becomes too easy, they fail too because everyone will launch Apple-compatible chat apps! In fact the worst case is that the protocols end up standardized, in which case they'll have to compete with genuine open source implementations. Basically, I'm absolutely in their corner in this fight, but I'd never bet on Beeper as a product.
• septic-liqueur 3y ago
  I would gladly pay a few bucks a month for such product. It solves a real problem
  • wkat4242 3y ago
    Beeper is already a paid product at $10 per month, see beeper.com
    • thatloststudent 3y ago
      Used to be that way, they decided to give it out for free for the time being. [1] [1] - https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-is-now-free https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-is-now-free
      • wkat4242 3y ago
        Oops thanks. Should have checked my link but it feels like I only looked at it a couple months ago.