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rob53 said:

Both of you are wrong. Beeper is hacking a Mac to get access. This is blatantly against Apple’s EULA agreement. People need to quit giving hackers a reason to have any product. 

... could Apple just support the app and concept in the interest of its paying customers ...?

... is this yet another strike in the box for Apple trying to monetize everything Steve Jobs left behind, entrusted to Tim Apple since 2013, at the expense of the customer... ?

... to be fair it is Apple's sandbox to do what they please ...

... how is this a computer for the rest of us, if we are referencing 'core values' ...?   Where has all the aspirational rhetoric faded to anyway ...?

My macOS haven't worked properly (esp sync) since High Sierra ...

I am reminded of the book titled 'Too much and never enough', although it is technically the corporate job description...

sflocal said:

Why would any company think it's okay to hijack proprietary technology from another company, let alone Apple?

I would ask if at first blush because it is better for the customer...?

As I recall Jobs saying to the effect that ~ to build the best computers they have to be profitable, to keep building better computers, however building a computer to be profitable will eventually fail... or something like that...  Does that seem in line with this...?

The Beeper site sums it up well: www.beeper.com/cloud

Chat today is broken. We have 5-10+ different chat apps on our phones, each for a different set of contacts. There's no unified inbox or search. Our inbox is cluttered with one-time codes and spam.

So, we're fixing it. Beeper Cloud is a universal chat app. It’s a single app to chat with friends on 15 different chat networks. We’ve added chat superpowers that make it the best chat app on earth.

I have a ton of contacts that will never, ever, ever buy an iPhone (on walled garden principle), and I for one have no desire to ever embrace other message apps like What's App or the like...

Maybe this is the start of a universal solution - a message app 'for the rest of us'... ?

Along with Zuboff's defining tome on Surveillance Capitalism POI:  www.mckenziefunk.com/thehankshow - which suggests the concerns extend beyond advertising...

Do settings matter ?  gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-ipad-privacy-problems-data-gathering-1849855092

Additionally why does every iOS app added have a well buried machine learning preference setting on by default...?

... I'm most curious to see the GPU scores which to date have not tempted me away from an upgradable eGPU ...