[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Ofri wrote:

> It seems like I'm the only one, but I honestly think an intuitive,  
> hot looking, IM client for the iPhone, even if it has to connect  
> every time you open it, is very useful. I find myself many times  
> wishing I had Adium on the iPhone for a few minutes of chat. And  
> being realistic, optimize as long as you wish with push  
> notifications and whatnot, but if the user is going to "turn on" the  
> device once every few minutes, send a message, and put it back to  
> sleep the battery is going to drain pretty fast.

I don't disagree, Ofri - I use the AIM client currently, and it really  
doesn't bother me that it's not always on.  Other things about it  
bother me, but not that :)

As Peter Saint-Andre pointed out, running and maintaining a server for  
communications is non-trivial...

In any case, I don't think that the two fairly reasonable proposals  
thus far are necessarily exclusive.  Given an awesome Adium for iPhone  
application's UI and properly developed backend, an account type of  
"Adium On My Desktop" could be created, paired as Andy suggests or  
through some other mechanism and used by more advanced users who are  
capable of setting up their router, dynamic DNS, and so forth to  
provide a connection to a home machine.  I think that most of Adium  
for iPhone's users given both options, though, would want to be able  
to connect regardless of whether or not they have an appropriate setup  
at home running, connected, and reachable.

-Evan
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