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

[Mark Janssen]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Andreas Monitzer <am at adiumx.com> wrote:
> 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...

In the keynote there's a mention of three kinds of notifications:
badges (unread message counts, etc.), alerts (sound notifications) and
messages (like the current SMS text notifications). Every message will
be routed through Apple's servers, which means that there's a single
API and just one connection.

The setup is like: [Developer's servers] > [Apple's servers] > [iPhone]

I can see services like Beejive, currently providing an iPhone IM web
interface, providing their own applications. There's no need for many
applications for each IM service -- just the need for one company to
provide an IM application and server.