IT Home on December 25th, Beeper Mini is an Android IM application that claims to be completely reversed iMessage communication protocol, allowing Android users to get"iMessage blue bubble chat experience", since the release of the application, it has launched a "tug of war" with Apple, and has been repeatedly "blocked" and "resurrected" again.
▲ 图源 Beeper 博客
Previously, four U.S. senators jointly asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Apple's ban on the Beeper Mini, and now the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that it has intervened in the case to investigate, but Eric Migicovsky, co-founder of the Beeper company behind the Beeper Mini, declined to comment on the case.
The US FTC (Federal Trade Commission) also released a blog post a few days ago, and foreign media 9to5Mac believes that this implies that the FTC is also conducting a related monopoly investigation.
However, IT Home noticed that the Beeper development team has claimed that "no longer playing cat and mouse games with Apple", after Beeper Mini updated its blog, requiring users to use macOS or a jailbroken iPhone to generate a "credential file" before they can use the iMessage function, and if this scheme is also restricted by Apple in the future, the development team will abandon updating Beeper Mini at that time.