Beeper, the multimessenger that Apple desperately fought for, has been acquired by Automattic (WordPress and Tumblr)
We haven’t forgotten yet Beeper — the same multimessenger that iMessage launched on Android, which upset Apple, so it acquired Automattic, which owns WordPress, Tumblr, Simplenote, and other services.
A significant update to iMessage (two forms of end-to-end encryption) puts it on par with Signal
iMessage is undergoing significant changes, making it one of the two messaging apps best prepared for the upcoming advent of quantum computing, along with Signal or perhaps even more resilient.