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Beeper Mini Is Back (blog.beeper.com)

submitted 9 months ago by mp3@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 52 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I can’t see Apple letting this ride

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 54 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Which is rich considering they reverse-engineered MS Office formats to get their office suite to work

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is that true? I thought the specs were publicly available

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 22 points 9 months ago

AFAIK only the "new" formats are (for the basic apps, the ones ending on x). Apple's office suite is much older than those.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think most if not all of those formats are plaintext? Open a .doc and it’s a heap of garbage XML-like soup.

[–] paf0@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It is now but the older formats used to be more like an executable byte code. Efficient but insecure.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Well they've blocked it once. It'll be interesting to watch. Not sure of the legalities. Hard to say.