There's good news and bad news for iPhone owners with Android friends. First the bad: Apple will probably never bring iMessage to Android. But on the bright side, it doesn't need to. It's impossible ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you send a text from an iPhone to another iPhone, most of the time that text is blue. If you send a text from an iPhone to an ...

It's almost 2024, which means iMessage will soon be 13 years old. iMessage is easily one of Apple's best products, a secure and private mobile chat app that everyone in the industry wants to emulate ...

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 ...

On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the recent controversy around Android apps that seek to enable iMessage functionality. The app's developers used reverse-engineered iMessage ...

For more than a decade, iPhone users have enjoyed the exclusivity of blue iMessage bubbles in their chats. That changed in 2023 when the Android riffraff arrived courtesy of apps like Beeper that ...

A few weeks ago, an app called Nothing Chats arrived on the scene with a whole lot of buzz around it. The key selling point was iMessage on Android, and that, too, with blue bubbles. No more green ...

Why it matters: Recent developments make it clear that iMessage won't come to non-Apple devices for the foreseeable future. The Cupertino giant's messaging service has dodged looming European ...

An Apple executive pushed the company to make iMessage available for Android back in 2013. The executive cited the threat of Google buying WhatsApp as a reason to steam ahead. A fellow Apple executive ...

The prior version of Beeper Mini did not require an ‌Apple ID‌, and it registered each Android user's phone number with Apple's iMessage servers without Apple's permission. The app's developers used ...

Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky received an unexpected message in early 2023: a developer claimed to have cracked Apple's iMessage code, enabling cross-platform messaging with Android devices. Skeptical at ...