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https://twitter.com/ericmigi/status/1763694753848479844

Built for speed and performance, with a complete redesign of the look and feel. You'll be able to try it for yourself soon…

A small sample of the many new features:

• OLED black theme
• Local message cache (all chats open instantly)
• Add/modify chat networks (no need to set up on desktop)
• Chat bubbling
• Tablet (multi-pane) mode
• Full message search (across all your chat networks)

He added, on Matrix, “Plan is to offer local bridges for all encrypted networks”

Although confirming this would be the case at launch, it was unclear specifically which networks are counted as encrypted.

CEO Eric Migicovsky reports that there are more than 100,000 Beeper Cloud users

Josh is an employee of Beeper; screenshot is from Beeper’s official chat room on matrix.

The Digital Markets Act comes into effect Wednesday, March 7, 2024

multiple reports on Discord, Matrix, and Telegram, seem to suggest that, without any notice, Apple is lifting the hardware bans which had been applied to Apple users who had used their Macs and Apple IDs with Beeper

Bloomberg reports that the three additional potential gatekeepers, namely: iMessage, Bing, Edge, have all been excluded

The above graphic thereby shows all those that will be targeted on March 7

via The Verge

hosted on the Mozilla.org homeserver

Beeper is said to be focusing on adding other chat networks to their “Mini” app, and preparing for a relaunch.

Bloomberg says no, according to “people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.”

The decision is to be officially released by the EU in February 2024

Beeper previously asked their first officially appointed Reddit mod to join the telegram group, where he spammed NSFW content

Announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/beeper/s/LBncfZnIsb

Beeper’s official discord invite, provided by Daniel “captain booty clap” Ramirez: https://discord.gg/zf6hf6UY4G

update: Beeper is also permanently banning from their subreddit anyone who mentions “Telegram” or “Lemmy”

update 2: Eric Migicovsky added a comment that the discord was made at his request; therefore it is official

Apple claims it “does not monetise iMessage via the sale of hardware devices”

it further claims it runs 5 completely separate App Stores