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

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 14:12, George Armah wrote:

> 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?

The big difference is that on my Mac, I can let Adium run in the  
background receiving IMs, while I do something else in the foreground  
(that's what I'm doing right now actually). Can't do that on the iPhone.
A big part of IM is being available to anybody who wants to talk to me.

You wouldn't want your mails to bounce while you're on the road  
either, would you?

> 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.

Does Apple route all this traffic through their own servers, or is it  
handled locally on the phone? I wouldn't want to enable Apple to  
listen to my private conversations...

andy