Technology @lemmy.world Odrel @lemmy.world 8mo ago

WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper for $125M

techcrunch.com WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper for $125M | TechCrunch

The deal, which was for $125 million according to sources close to the matter, is Automattic's second acquisition of a cross-platform messaging solution.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14092066

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I’ve never heard of Beeper.
- That's the one that was able to bridge iMessage to Matrix for about 5 minutes until Apple shut them down to defend their walled garden and anticompetitive behaviour.
  
  sounds about right haha
  
  I imagine that this incident will come up in the Apple antitrust case that the US Department of Justice has brought.
- Beeper is a service, which offers matrix, matrix bridges for nearly any other service and a client to use them on nearly any hardware.
  
  meaning you can use your existing messaging client to talk to people on other messaging clients? like the fediverse?
kinda like trillian in the olden days... not sure all them proprietary services are gonna let 'em use their platforms though.
- If this takes off I figure it's only a matter of time until services start blocking them. What's changed between the old days of Trillian and now is that capitalism has advanced much further along and these companies have too much to lose by not being able to data harvest right in their own apps now 😉

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