The idea of bringing iMessage to Android remains something that Apple has little interest in doing, but it seems to be alone in that regard. Beeper is just one of a number of different companies offering apps that allow Android owners to talk to friends and family via iMessage with varying degrees of privacy. But it was Beeper Mini that caught captured attention because it was the best option to date — no signing into an Apple ID on a remote Mac server here. But Apple soon blocked Beeper Mini, and the team behind it has been working on getting it back up and running ever since. Now, they might have done it. With some caveats.
Yes, Beeper Mini is back, at least for now. But gone is the slick way in which people signed up for the service, and a key feature is no longer available which might push some users away. But the biggest problem that Android owners are going to have to deal with is the requirement for an extra bit of hardware to make Beeper Mini work. And that hardware just happens to be a Mac.
