[Adium-devl] Steve's WWDC presentation and instant messaging

[Jordan Schelew]

On 10-Jun-08, at 9:12 AM, George Armah wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I had a question (for Mac IM client developers) whilst watching the
> Keynote.
> On a regular Mac, when Adium is not running, I don't expect to be
> receiving any ims or notifications
> regarding messages sent to me from my Adium contacts.
> Why is the situation different for Mobile Devices? I mean it is a nice
> feature but isn't it more of an extra feature rather than a necessary
> ingredient for getting
> IM clients (like Adium) to run on the iPhone?
>
Because the original show-stopper is that apps couldn't run in the  
background. This solves that problem! I have MobileChat on my iPhone  
right now, but I rarely use it because I have to sign in, then when I  
head out of a wifi zone I get disconnected. I would find this  
extremely useful - this is exactly how it works on the Blackberry -  
people get notifications when someone has messaged them via the IM  
service.

> Also, will Apple be able to handle the sheer volume of Push
> Notifications that might
> end up being generated? It would have to be doing Push for almost  
> all of
> the major
> IM Services.
I don't see why not... sure there will be lots of requests, but it's a  
pretty small amount of data to just push a notification. That is,  
compared to full messages, etc.

Jordan