So Beeper is charging money to let users access Apple's servers in an unauthorized way by spoofing a serial number, and then they complain to regulators when Apple locks them out?
I think that was their play from the beginning, get something working to prove it's technically possible and eliminate that line of argumentation, wait for the retaliation, and then sue them for anticompetitive practices that now clearly demonstrates consumer harm.
Get the regulators to force Apple to open the front door for them.
They were charging for iMessage over a year ago in what is now called Beeper Cloud. I wonder why Beeper Mini created the ruckus, perhaps because it was iMessage only?
I think it is because this new Beeper Mini spoofs a Mac, whereas the older Beeper Cloud used a real Mac in a datacenter to forward your messages to you. Personally, I don't think that Apple would have any leg to stand on if they went after the Beeper Cloud on-a-real-Mac implementation.
The article highlights Beeper's founder/CEO testified to the Senate about the concern before hand. Not sure if they've said anything since but I'm also not sure they really need to, they've already complained they'd get locked out and now they have. Really it's probably a better image for them to not be the ones to mention it again at this point.
