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Contact Us | Privacy Policy Affiliate Disclosure If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Read our ethics policy. Beeper Mini users find Macs banned from iMessage network Malcolm Owen's AvatarMalcolm Owen | Jan 14, 2024 Beeper Mini [58100-1183] 13 Facebook x.com Reddit Beeper mini users who used their hardware to register their app with Apple's iMessage network may find their Mac blocked from the service instead, in what could be retaliation against the use of the controversial messaging app. Following a cat-and-mouse race between Beeper and Apple to get around Apple's security and allow Android device users to post to the iMessage network, it seems that some are finding out that they've got bigger problems with their own overall access to iMessage. In December, one of the last fixes for access offered by Beeper was a method of using a real Mac to connect to iMessage, and use that registration with Beeper Cloud and Beeper mini. The logic worked, with the genuine registration data sourced from the user's own hardware, or a Mac they had access to, allowing access. However, not all is rosy for users, if the Beeper subreddit is to be believed. A number of posts claim that Apple is banning Macs from being able to make iMessage posts at all. It appears that Apple may be detecting the instances of registrations being used by Beeper, and then striking the registration's access from iMessage. The problem is that doing so also blocks the legitimate original source of the registration too, as well as any other devices that use the same registration data. At the time of the method's introduction, Beeper said that testing revealed up to 20 users could "safely" use the same registration data. While affected users can only contact Apple support in a bid to restore access, Beeper doesn't seem to be continuing the fight with Apple. In a blog post from December 21, the company admits it "can't win a cat-and-mouse game with the largest company on earth." With no plans at the time of writing to respond if Beeper's system was knocked offline, the blog adds that the company would return to the long-term goal of "building the best chat app on earth" in the new year. BGR also reports that Beeper Mini has been removed from the Google Play Store, though seemingly momentarily. Beeper is said to be focusing on adding other chat networks to the app, and preparing for a relaunch. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm Owen's Avatar Malcolm Owen Product Comparison Expert Based in South Wales, Malcolm Owen has written about tech since 2012, and previously wrote for Electronista and MacNN. In his downtime, he pursues photography, has an interest in magic tricks, and is bothered by his c... 13 Comments --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Comments Forum User lam92103 lam92103 said about 1 day ago Banning real Macs from iMessage, sounds like it could be a legal issue. Specially if they were sold with one of the main features being access to iMessage --------------------------------------------------------------------- Forum User bobolicious bobolicious said about 1 day ago ... is this yet another strike in the box for Apple trying to monetize everything Steve Jobs left behind, entrusted to Tim Apple since 2013, at the expense of the customer... ? ... to be fair it is Apple's sandbox to do what they please ... ... how is this a computer for the rest of us, if we are referencing 'core values' ...? Where has all the aspirational rhetoric faded to anyway ...? My macOS haven't worked properly (esp sync) since High Sierra ... I am reminded of the book titled 'Too much and never enough', although it is technically the corporate job description... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Forum User rob53 rob53 said about 23 hours ago Both of you are wrong. Beeper is hacking a Mac to get access. This is blatantly against Apple's EULA agreement. People need to quit giving hackers a reason to have any product. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Forum User elijahg elijahg said about 23 hours ago rob53 said: Both of you are wrong. Beeper is hacking a Mac to get access. This is blatantly against Apple's EULA agreement. People need to quit giving hackers a reason to have any product. You can put anything you like in an EULA. Doesn't necessarily make it legally binding nor enforceable. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Forum User danox danox said about 22 hours ago elijahg said: rob53 said: Both of you are wrong. Beeper is hacking a Mac to get access. This is blatantly against Apple's EULA agreement. People need to quit giving hackers a reason to have any product. You can put anything you like in an EULA. Doesn't necessarily make it legally binding nor enforceable. It's enforceable try to explain to a judge in court, how your Mac registration number ended up on 20 different (registrations) accounts from around the world. And the EULA in your possession says you can't do that. Also note if/when you tell the judge you don't have/own that Mac computer then you are doubly F__ked.....In short you have no leg to stand on. 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