props to these guys for intentionally getting into a cat and mouse game with apple over this.
surely there's security implications to all this, if you've got a chat app where there's some internal belief that it can only run on certain platforms, also controlled by your company, there may be some assumptions made about how things work... can't help but imagine beeper itself opens up more vectors for stuff like the recently-in-the-news push notification mass surveillance
i have been wondering if theres other outcomes i'm missing between the two obvious results:
1) a more tightly controlled, locked-down iMessage ecosystem
2) some kind of explicitly supported third-party api