The biggest question I have is what does the exit story look like? I know it's a common problem for people switching to Android from an iPhone (keeping their phone number) and not receiving any messages from iPhones as their contacts are still trying to send via iMessage.
What happens at the end of the trial when I choose it's not for me. Will I suddenly loose my ability to text with every Apple user? What about in the event of a service failure of your infrastructure (it says it talks directly to Apple's servers but does it also rely on you?)... What if Apple does go after you or makes a breaking change to the protocol?
In all those scenarios, what happens to my messages? Can I export and keep them?
I'm very interested to try but the potential to loose access even for a day or two is a really hard ask.
Someone on r/android reported that they could not receive messages from iPhones once they uninstalled the app. They had to remove their contact from the iPhone and re add it to fall back to SMS.
Someone else commented that you can de-register your number on Apple's site, but the person then said that it didn't work either.
So yeah, I am holding back on it to until there is more clarity about this. The overwhelming majority of people I text are on imessage and it would be a royal pain if I had to have all those people delete and re-add me.
> Someone else commented that you can de-register your number on Apple's site, but the person then said that it didn't work either.
I don't know how Beeper could possibly prevent Apple's iMessage deregister form[1] from not working. Apple handles whether or not you have an iMessage account, not Beeper. It might take a bit for it to fully be purged, but this was only announced/launched less than a day ago so I can't believe that person really waited before confirming it somehow doesn't work.
They complained that when they entered their number to de-register, they were presented with a "number not found" error. Which seems like a plausible error for a backdoor imessage implementation.
What happens at the end of the trial when I choose it's not for me. Will I suddenly loose my ability to text with every Apple user? What about in the event of a service failure of your infrastructure (it says it talks directly to Apple's servers but does it also rely on you?)... What if Apple does go after you or makes a breaking change to the protocol?
In all those scenarios, what happens to my messages? Can I export and keep them?
I'm very interested to try but the potential to loose access even for a day or two is a really hard ask.