When an Android person sends a textual content message to an iPhone person, their chat bubble exhibits up in iOS shaded inexperienced moderately than iMessage’s default blue. This shade coding alerts to the iPhone person that the incoming textual content is arriving from outdoors the Apple ecosystem. However the divide goes past easy aesthetics. Pictures and movies shared between the 2 cell platforms don’t come by at full decision. Neither do wealthy interactions like learn receipts, typing indicators, and tapbacks. Group chats between the platforms are a complete mess, full of dropped messages and harm emotions. A brand new app goals to bridge that blue-green bubble hole and make texting extra seamless—and safer with full encryption. It even turns Android texts blue! It’s what we’ve at all times needed … proper?
This week on Gadget Lab, we discuss Beeper Mini, the app attempting to make our textual content conversations simpler. WIRED options editor Jason Kehe joins us to marketing campaign towards the development of interoperability on our telephones. As Jason sees it, these friction-free communication mechanisms are inflicting us to slide into unhealthy habits, develop into extra remoted, and really feel much less inclined to place down our telephones and have an actual expertise.
Present Notes
Learn Lauren’s story in regards to the new Beeper app and the teenage coder who helped make it work. Learn extra of Jason’s numerous different controversial opinions.
Suggestions
Jason recommends piracy, and in addition just a few works about pirates just like the present Our Flag Means Death and the ebook Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly. Lauren recommends the brand new BlackBerry film. Mike recommends pizzelle Italian cookies. Purchase ‘em or make ‘em.
Jason Kehe will be discovered on social media @jkehe. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the primary hotline at @GadgetLab. The present is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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