13 April 2024 – The firm that owns WordPress.com, Automattic, has purchased Beeper, a messaging software that you may be familiar with from Beeper Mini, its “iMessage for Android” app, which caused the business to argue with Apple.
With the $125 million transaction closing earlier this month, Automattic now employs 27 Beeper personnel, including co-founder Eric Migicovsky. Migicovsky, who invented the Pebble wristwatch, will now lead Automattic’s messaging division.
Since its beta debut in 2021, Beeper—a global chat software that unifies several messaging services into a single inbox—has accumulated around 100,000 users by integrating with well-known platforms such as Facebook Messenger, Signal, and Slack. However, there has been news about the company’s other app.
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The Beeper Mini, which debuted last year, enabled Android phones to use iMessage. Beeper’s utopia was short-lived, as Apple compelled the business to terminate the application, citing concerns about user privacy and security. The transaction happened soon after Beeper and Apple’s well-publicized spat from the previous year. Beeper’s release of “Beeper Mini,” an app that lets Android users utilize Apple’s iMessage service, was the focal point of the controversy.
