[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Ryan R. LaMothe]

Hello,

I always find it odd when people don't get how a stand-alone IM client  
would succeed on a mobile platform.  Well, I can give you a number of  
good reasons why a standalone client would succeed:

1)  I refuse to store my username and password to IM services, email  
or otherwise on 3rd party servers.  For example, I will not use  
BeeJive, Meebo, etc.
2)  Other privacy concerns unrelated to username and password when  
using 3rd party servers (logged conversations, etc.).
3)  I cannot use 3rd party servers to login to our corporate Jabber  
server, due to legal issues (!)  This is a huge showstopper for me,  
since our corporate development teams live though email and IM.
4)  I do not carry my laptop around with me %100 of the time, but I  
always have my phone on me at all times.
5)  Once "push notifications" are available on the iPhone, it is  
almost guaranteed that IM clients popularity will skyrocket.  This is  
the #1 complaint I hear from iPhone users as to why they do not  
currently use IM clients right now (including AIM).
6)  Web-only clients generally suck.  They do not deal with unreliable  
communication well, require 3rd party server support and if they  
worked so well, the iPhone SDK would still be a large Javascript  
library.

Those are just off the top of my head.


Sincerely,
Ryan

On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:39 AM, David Smith wrote:

> There is a larger issue here in my mind. What does Adium for the  
> iPhone actually mean? With push notification support coming  
> "someday", I don't see how a local-only IM client on the phone can  
> expect to succeed long term.
>
> 			David