Apple has recently taken action against users of Beeper Mini, a universal chat app, by banning some of their Mac computers from accessing iMessage. This move affected Beeper Mini customers who were using their Macs to connect to iPhone messaging on their Android phones, with approximately 3,500 users reporting outages. Apple cited 'irregular activity' as the reason for the revocation of access. The New York Times conducted an investigation into the matter, which led to Apple unbanning the affected users. Beeper, which supports 15 different messaging networks, had shifted focus from iMessage to its core product prior to the ban. The situation raises questions about the appropriateness of Apple's hardware bans on paid customers using third-party clients to access iMessage on their own devices.
Beeper Mini customers were using their Mac computers to connect to iPhone messaging on their Android phones. Now, they say Apple has blocked the messaging service on their Macs. https://t.co/ZMfpRDw5x3
Beeper disables new iMessage connections after Apple banned Macs https://t.co/AsmZhwM4zY by @nexusben
Why this matters Regardless of what happened before, there is only question at issue right now: Is a hardware ban (with no warning) an acceptable action for Apple to take against paid customers who chose to use a 3rd party client (Beeper) to access iMessage on their own Mac… https://t.co/4bvBi0dxB5 https://t.co/7g3PskjQ0v
Apple banned some Beeper user Mac computers, New York Times investigated, Apple unbanned. The saga continues! Even after we've shifted our energy from iMessage back to our core Beeper product (15 network universal chat app), Apple cannot seem to get enough! Here's the TLDR: https://t.co/pMln2xK6Kf
Some Beeper users lost access to iMessage on their Mac and were told by Apple access was revoked due to irregular activity; Beeper: ~3.5K users reported outages (@trippmickle / New York Times) https://t.co/xbfcWLbpEl 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM https://t.co/w2bKlBCVs6
Also Apple has declared (to EU in DMA proceedings) that 'iMessage is not a fee-based service and Apple does not monetise it via the sale of hardware devices'. I'm sure he'll correct his post with the actual facts... Page 31 https://t.co/AG8pESPAdD https://t.co/Ew10EipAB0 https://t.co/4yX7AI2hBs