BeBeper Mini: Sharing iMessage Registration Data With a Family of Mac Users in a DOJ Investigate Possible Anticompetitive Conduct

Following a tumultuous few weeks for Beeper, which has been trying to provide an iMessage-compatible Android app, a group of US lawmakers are pushing for the DOJ to investigate Apple for “potentially anticompetitive conduct” over its attempts to disable Beeper’s services. Beeper Mini, the messaging app, was mentioned in a letter to the DOJ penned by Senators Amy Pelosi and Mike Lee and Representatives Jerry Nadler and Ken Buck.

A response from Apple was not immediately available. But given that the company has continued to find ways to shut down Beeper’s ability to send iMessages, it seems likely that Apple will try to do so again.

Beeper claims that if you have Beeper and a Mac, you can share registration data with a friend. “In our testing, 10-20 iMessage users can safely use the same registration data,” Beeper says. The company is also going to open source its iMessage bridge and the tool for Mac that creates the registration data.