Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

It's almost 2024, which means iMessage will soon be 13 years old. iMessage is easily one of Apple's best products, a secure and private mobile chat app that everyone in the industry wants to emulate ...

After Apple shut down the mechanism that Android app Beeper Mini was using to bring iMessage to Android users, Beeper Mini's developers today said that they have found a way to bring the app back, ...

Apple temporarily banned Macs used as bridges to Android devices, and now any new users will have to self-host the company’s software. Apple temporarily banned Macs used as bridges to Android devices, ...

Apple's pseudo-social monopoly in messaging through iMessage purportedly gives iPhone users a better experience. Beeper is trying to bring Android into the fold. Imad was a senior reporter covering ...

Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky received an unexpected message in early 2023: a developer claimed to have cracked Apple's iMessage code, enabling cross-platform messaging with Android devices. Skeptical at ...

The renowned but controversial iMessage for Android experience by Sunbird is now making its comeback with a new expansion. More users are eligible to access this experience despite not owning an ...

There's a new iMessage-client app for Android that promises to bring blue bubbles to your smartphone without tricks or a Mac server in the middle. While you might be skeptical at first – believe me, ...

Beeper Mini has a new “fix” coming for its broken iMessage on Android integration. However, the new method requires Mac access to send (and intermittently resend) “registration data” from an ...

As of Sunday, 60% of Beeper users weren’t able to send or receive iMessage, and the company’s upcoming Android solution is to “have access to a Mac computer, or have a friend on Beeper with a Mac.” ...

On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the recent controversy around Android apps that seek to enable iMessage functionality. The app's developers used reverse-engineered iMessage ...

Over the past several weeks, iMessage for Android has been a big topic of discussion and, for many, it comes back to why Android users seem to want iMessage so much. Personally, I don’t. iMessage for ...