[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 19:48, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> This theoretical proxy server would need to have some sort of login  
> scheme - registration for Adium users making using of this iPhone  
> app, with the same information in both Adium on the desktop and the  
> iPhone.

Not necessarily... But more information on that push notification  
thingy would be needed for this.

>> Yes, you would need to have an Adium client running on a machine  
>> that's accessible from the Internet for that. Port forwarding on  
>> the router would work, too, though (even via uPnP).
>
> Seems like a lot of 'givens'... a fully serverside connectivity  
> solution just seems cleaner and more reliable.  You mention that  
> there are problems with serverside solutions that phoning home would  
> overcome? Could you expand on that a little bit?

Mostly the load and bandwidth... adiumx.com wouldn't be able to handle  
a million users chatting away on multiple accounts.

andy