Right now, Beeper is buying refurbished iPhones from cellphone stores’ trade-in stock, jailbreaking them, loading Beeper’s app onto those units, and sending them to users. The Beeper app loaded onto a jailbroken iPhone is open-source, Migicovsky notes, so “users can verify exactly what they are running.” The iPhone 4S still has persistent jailbreak methods publicly available, including Phoenix. Repair information and guides for the fifth generation of iPhone. The team hasn’t yet figured out pricing or terms for sending jailbroken iPhones to customers of its $10/month service yet.
Not every customer will need iMessage support.
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#Typestatus for non jailbroken phone install#īut Migicovsky stated that customers who already have an iPhone hanging around, or want to buy one, could jailbreak and install the Beeper app themselves. In fact, there’s also work to make the Beeper app work on the no-jailbreak-needed AltStore. If people want to really dig in and control their messaging, they could set up their own hosting on Beeper’s servers-or even host the bridge to Beeper’s servers on their own Raspberry Pi. I emailed Jay Freeman, a.k.a saurik, creator of the foundational Cydia platform for jailbreak apps, for his take on Beeper and its use of jailbroken iPhones.
He noted that at least one app, Remote Messages, provided jailbroken iPhones with remote iMessage access as early as 2012. It’s not Beeper, necessarily, that is the root of the joke: But physically mailing a jailbroken iPhone, Freeman wrote, is “just ridiculous: the entire concept of it leaves me in stiches.”ĭon’t get Freeman/saurik wrong, though. The idea that “send a jailbroken iPhone to everyone who subscribes to our service” isn’t a joke–so many people I know read that and were like “omg that’s hilarious”… “wait I think they are serious?!?”–is a demonstration of how ridiculous the whole situation is with Apple’s ecosystem control.įreeman’s Cydia recently filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging it used anti-competitive measures to eliminate Cydia in the run-up to launching its own iPhone App Store. Not everyone will want to set up a hacked iPhone for iMessage omniscience (and, as noted, Beeper itself works with many message services besides Apple’s). But everyone will benefit from older iPhones finding a new use.
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Keeping a Mac running all day, every day just to send iMessages from a non-Mac computer or phone seems like overkill. #Typestatus for non jailbroken phone mac# IFixit contributor Whitson Gordon estimated his own computer’s power use at 573 KWh per year, or $160 in his local power costs.
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