As much as I want it to be true, I couldn’t find the original tweet that the reddit post mentions. It’s not on that users profile when looking on Nitter.

Beeper existed before the iMessage thing as an attempt to unify all your messaging apps into one.

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10 doesn’t allow bootloader unlocking so I’d have a hard time recommending that with only 2 years of OS updates. Probably would have bought one otherwise