[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Ryan R. LaMothe wrote:

> I agree with your points.  The Message View point will definitely be  
> interesting to research in the iPhone SDK.
>
> Here a new client which I believe deserves some attention:
>
> http://www.beejive.com/iphone/
>
> I've used BeeJive on both the iPhone and Blackberry and the  
> interface is nearly exactly what is needed.  Not too much, not too  
> little with just about the right amount of features.
>
> These are the clients which will be competing directly with Adium  
> for the iPhone.  Off-hand, two immediate advantages to Adium over  
> other upcoming clients like BeeJive are that Adium is free in price  
> and free in source. A third distinct advantage is the large  
> installed Adium/Pidgin base on the desktop.

I don't think that we should take as given that Adium on the iPhone  
would be free in price. I point to the new Colloquy iPhone client as a  
prior move into a free-and-open-source desktop client with a very  
reasonably priced iPhone companion.

-Evan
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