Beeper Mini managed to reverse engineer iMessage so you can send and receive iMessages on an Android device without a Mac server in the middle to forward the messages. It works pretty damn well according to The Verge - "messages sent from Beeper Mini on my Pixel 8 appear as blue bubbles on the iPhones of my friends and family members. Group chats I'm on automatically switched over to iMessage as soon as someone fired off a meme. Reactions, threads, photos, and videos (without the messy text message compression) all came through. The best thing I can say about Beeper Mini is that almost no one noticed I was using it: blue bubbles just started appearing — no lost messages to speak of". Sounds almost too good to be true, but it's real and you can grab it now from the Google Play Store for US$1.99/m.
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