{"id":33458,"date":"2021-01-21T07:44:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=5361a68d968cd76a9eff2e30a7406e2f"},"modified":"2021-01-21T07:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:44:32","slug":"pebble-founder-promises-imessage-on-android-and-windows-with-universal-chat-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=33458","title":{"rendered":"Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with universal chat app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/1\/21\/22242143\/beeper-universal-chat-app-imessage-whatsapp-signal-telegram-pebble-founder\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Full circle!  Remember the early 2000s when we were all running gAIM\/Pidgin\/Adium or whatever to do multi-network client because things were fragmented but the protocols were well enough understood to make clients?  We're back.<\/div><figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/I1wZFTB046HpKA-ZWB_QfputIBo=\/0x0:1715x1143\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/68698998\/msedge_cx5MYIw6nR.0.png\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><figcaption><em>Beeper&rsquo;s website promises &ldquo;a single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other networks.&rdquo;<\/em> | Screenshot: BeeperHQ.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeperhq.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beeper<\/a> is a new universal chat app that&rsquo;s an attempt to unify 15 different chat platforms into a single interface. The app is the work of a team that includes Eric Migicovsky, the CEO and founder of former smartwatch manufacturer Pebble, who announced its launch on Twitter. Beeper&rsquo;s site notes that the project was previously known as NovaChat, and requires a $10 per month subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Although Beeper integrates with world&rsquo;s most popular messaging services like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Slack, Twitter, Discord, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger, it&rsquo;s the support for Apple&rsquo;s iMessage that&rsquo;s perhaps most interesting. iMessage is only officially available on Apple devices, and it&rsquo;s often cited by users as something that prevents them...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/1\/21\/22242143\/beeper-universal-chat-app-imessage-whatsapp-signal-telegram-pebble-founder\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beeper\u2019s website promises \u201ca single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other net&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=33458\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}