[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[David Smith]

You apparently missed most of the thread. I'll clarify inline.

On Jan 22, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Ryan R. LaMothe wrote:

> 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.
One of the main suggestions today was that your personal copy of Adium  
could act as a server.

>
> 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.
Hence this thread, yes.

>
> 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).
Push notifications require serverside support, which is why I sent the  
email you replied to.

>
> 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.
Who on earth was talking about a web client?

>
>
>
> 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