This is partially true using Beeper Mini, for the moment, requires signing in with an Apple ID, rather than the phone-number-only method available at Beeper Mini's launch. 'It’s working exactly as it did before Friday,' Beeper's co-founders write in a blog post. Beeper Mini, the Android app born from a reverse-engineering of Apple's iMessage service, is purportedly working again as of Monday afternoon after a launch last week that drew more than 100,000 users, followed by a weekend outage forced by Apple.Īn update to Beeper Mini in the Google Play Store restores the ability to send and receive text messages through iMessage, the encrypted service typically restricted to Apple devices.
