[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

> 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.

Well, yes. But assuming that capacity and bandwidth are infinite -  
which is the effective assumed case when User Alice makes use of  
Server X which she does not control nor finance -  what advantage  
would this solution bring? In other words: There are currently  
commercial solutions which are successfully negotiating the cost- 
profit line, charging enough for their software to be able to afford  
profitably the server resources required. Can we actually do better?

-Evan
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