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A fact from Beeper (application) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 February 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that a 16-year-old high-school student reverse-engineered iMessage to let Android users text iPhone users with blue chat bubbles using the Beeper Mini app?
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... that a 16-year-old high school student reverse-engineered iMessage to let Android users text iPhone users with blue chat bubbles from the Beeper Mini app? Source: The Verge ("he had reverse engineered Apple’s iMessage, allowing any device — Android, Windows, whatever — to send messages as a blue bubble", "a 16-year-old high school student", "That prototype became the basis for a new Android app, called Beeper Mini")
Overall: Interesting article, Newslinger! There are no issues such as to block approval. (FYI, this is your last QPQ-exempt nom.) I've made a small tweak to the hook, unlinking reverse-engineering per MOS:SOB and Android and iPhone per MOS:OVERLINK. Let me know if you object to any of those changes. But my view is that it's important to direct readers to the DYK'd article, and to that end I'd actually suggest a further change, but one greater than I'd want to make BOLDly here: Have the hook end simply at "blue chat bubbles", and pipe '''[[Beeper (company)|reverse-engineered iMessage]]'''. But that's up to you. This is approved either way. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe) 02:34, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
Interesting article, Newslinger! There are no issues such as to block approval. (FYI, this is your last QPQ-exempt nom.) I've made a small tweak to the hook, unlinking reverse-engineering per MOS:SOB and Android and iPhone per MOS:OVERLINK. Let me know if you object to any of those changes. But my view is that it's important to direct readers to the DYK'd article, and to that end I'd actually suggest a further change, but one greater than I'd want to make BOLDly here: Have the hook end simply at "blue chat bubbles", and pipe