Beeper Mini — the app that allowed Android users into to Apple’s iMessage walled garden via some clever reverse engineering — abruptly stopped working yesterday, just three days after launching. Now it seems certain that the sudden outage is a result of an Apple intervention.
While the widely shared Apple PR statement doesn’t mention Beeper Mini directly, it’s pretty clear that’s what it’s about. “We took steps to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials in order to gain access to iMessage,” the statement explains.
