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Le 25/06/2014 13:52, Jamie Strandboge a écrit :
Well... For those messaging applications (IRC, XMPP) and a lot of others, push notifications provide an elegant and efficient architecture.On 06/25/2014 05:36 AM, Florian Will wrote: ...Obviously, most users are not interested in control and transparency, they just want a phone that works and lasts long with a single charge. So I do accept the very strict and conservative Ubuntu Touch approach. Nobody uses XMPP or IRC anyways, and WhatsApp will happily send push notifications.I don't think this is true at all. I want a phone that works /and/ lasts long on a single charge /and/ apps that can handle IRC and XMPP. I don't think this is too much to ask*.
The fact that it requires a server side component is a non issue: we're living in a word of ubiquitous cloud computing. App developers have already embraced application design with a client and a server part. Ubuntu is a technology leader in /both/ domains.
And even if you don't feel like implementing a scalable server side yourself, I'm sure that solutions like Urban Airship or Boxcar will be available for Ubuntu in no time.
In other words, if you consider the whole Ubuntu landscape, I think that we already have all it takes to solve that background services problem...
David
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