Template:Did you know nominations/Beeper (company)

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The result was: promoted by DirtyHarry991 talk 07:46, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Beeper (company)

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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")
  • Reviewed: QPQ not required

Created by Newslinger (talk). Self-nominated at 00:48, 30 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Beeper (company); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

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)