“It’s taking a while to work through the backlog,” Migicovsky writes. Migicovsky is personally onboarding each new user who makes it through the sign-up queue, through Zoom calls.
The iMessage aspect of the app is still early-stage.
The first thing to know is that Beeper is very small right now, with just Migicovsky and Tulir Asokan at the helm. I messaged Eric Migicovsky, co-founder of Beeper and the former head of groundbreaking, Kickstarter-record-holding Pebble ( you might have heard of them), to get a sense of how Beeper plans to make this upcycling project work.
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What’s unique is that Beeper wants to repurpose old (some might say ancient) iPhones to help do the job.Ī box full of second-hand iPhones, such as the iPhone 4S, tweeted by Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky. What’s somewhat rare is the promise to include iMessage in the mix. Or the millions of older iPhones floating around in the secondary market.īeeper wants to combine all your messaging-Slack, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, SMS, WhatsApp, and more-into one tidy app. But a new messaging startup might have found an easier solution: that old iPhone in your junk drawer. Until now, people not using exclusively Apple computers had to either suck it up and reach for their phone to type an iMessage, or commit to leaving a Mac running all the time and run an app demanding invasive total storage access. It’s convenient to use on any device Steve Jobs created, but a pain to get to from Android, Windows, the web, or anywhere else. It is two-way encrypted and works on cellular or Wi-Fi, but it is only available on Apple devices. IMessage is the best of messaging apps, it is the worst of messaging apps.
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