[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[mm w]

yep what ever the solution you have to find one:

so someone could sum up: the good and bad points for each solution,
anyway if you don't have a desktop app you will not be able to use Adium iPhone
this is sad, for the data check, yep it's really a blocking point on
the iPhone if you do this
in realtime, you will drill all your battery very fast, as iPhone user
I will prefer text messaging


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:
>
> 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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