Beeper Mini and Apple started a tug of war , which was repeatedly banned and resurrected .

IT Home reported on December 18 that the Beeper team announced the launch of the Beeper Mini application on December 8, claiming to be completely reverse the iMessage communication protocol, so that Android users can also get a blue bubble chat experience.

Source: beeper blog (the same below) However, 24 hours after the app was launched, Apple took steps to "** the "fake credentials" that the company called, and claimed that this was to protect the privacy and security of users' iMessage:

We've taken steps to stop techniques that use fake credentials to gain access to iMessage in order to protect our users.

These technologies pose significant risks to user security and privacy, including potential metadata leaks and enabling spam and phishing attacks. We will continue to make updates to protect our users.

And Apple was not willing to "admit defeat", so it started a "tug-of-war" with beeper, the development team of Beeper mini, with one side "** credentials, and one side "creating" new credentials.

IT Home noticed that Beeper Mini was hit by Apple's new round of "**** on December 14, which allegedly affected 5% of users, but on the same day, the Beeper team announced that it had successfully replaced the credentials and restored the normal operation of the app.

And on December 17, the beeper mini was again "** this time claimed to have "more than 60% of users unable to use app services."

At the moment the Beeper team claims that they are "working hard to resolve the issue" and users may see a "new Mac" added to their Apple ID.

Obviously, the "tug-of-war" between Beeper Mini and Apple will continue until one side finally "surrenders", but Beeper's CEO Eric Migicovsky also posted a post today, claiming that Apple will legally require the Beeper Mini app to stop service.

IT Home continues to pay attention to the incident and will bring follow-up reports.