We've been neutral on Beeper so far, but an interview with the company's CEO clearly demonstrates that the company is wasting users' time and possibly causing security issues as it keeps running into ...

All change for iPhone — almost. As Apple’s long-awaited iMessage change goes live on more iPhones around the world, users are now warned this does not deliver the update they likely expect. Encrypted ...

The makers of the Nothing Phone (2) are launching Nothing Chats, which lets Android users who share their Apple ID send messages in the iPhone's regular blue bubbles. Sunbird says that an Apple ...

Google and major European mobile carriers are attempting to use new European Union digital laws to force Apple to share its iMessage blue bubbles with Android devices. The search engine has long ...

The green bubble stigma faced by Android users who send messages to their friends with iPhones is real—even the U.S. government acknowledges it. “Many non-iPhone users… experience social stigma, ...

Those blue bubbles were once the pinnacle of cool, but now regulators won't even give it a second look. Reading time 2 minutes iMessage, once considered an exclusive messaging service for Apple users, ...

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 ...

Update (12/11/23) - Apple has announced it shut down Beeper Mini and other third-party applications that enabled Android devices to use the iMessage service and get those coveted blue bubbles iPhone ...

Can an Android OEM really just hack its way into Apple’s iMessage? That is the hard-to-believe plan from upstart phone manufacturer “Nothing,” which says the new “Nothing Chats” will allow users to ...

The U.S. Department of Justice and 16 state attorneys general sued Apple for allegedly violating federal antitrust laws on Thursday. The 88-page complaint lays out the government’s case against Apple, ...

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