Beeper cloud used the device as a relay mechanism. I'm suggesting the same on-Android-device implementation, but rather than randomly generating an apple device to send to Apple's registration servers, they use a device I legitimately own.
No relays (so preserves security) & harder for apple to identify (because to them it'd be as if I'm just using my iPad)
Feedback for the Beeper team if they are reading: there is a non-zero amount of us that own Apple devices (like MacBooks or iPads) and not iPhones. For those it applies to, what if you leveraged the legitimate devices we do own as the spoofed devices used by Beeper Mini to register?
Don't know if that would solve the Phone Number registration part, but thought I'd throw this out there
No relays (so preserves security) & harder for apple to identify (because to them it'd be as if I'm just using my iPad)