Apple might’ve cut off Beeper Mini from bringing iMessage to Android

Beeper Mini, the chat app that successfully brought iMessage to Android earlier this week, is suffering a widespread service outage, fueling speculation Apple might have closed whatever loophole Beeper found by reverse engineering the tech giant’s messaging protocol. On Friday afternoon, Beeper Mini users began seeing repeated error messages when they went to try to send texts through the app. “Failed to lookup on server: lookup request timed out,” the notification reads. At 3:34pm ET, Beeper acknowledged the service disruption. “Investigating reports that sending/receiving is not working in Beeper Mini,” the startup tweeted.