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[Sturm Flut <sturmflut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/04/2015 04:27 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
> 
> There is really no reason in this case, this is clearly a case of
> getting the cloud service to send push notifications. And for OwnCloud
> that could be as simple as a plugin for OwnCloud. Here's a diagram on
> how it should work:
> 
> http://www.slideshare.net/tedgould/ubuntu-application-lifecycle-51978547/27


I have three comments/questions about this:

- Cloud synchronisation services also check the local phone for changes
in the background and sync them to the server. This design looks
unidirectional to me at first sight, but most likely I'm interpreting
the diagram wrong.

- We're starting the whole "not every service will change its server
side and add support for Ubuntu push notifications" discussion again. It
might be possible to get my own OwnCloud instance (if I still had one)
to do it, but what about e.g. Google Drive? Not only do they have no
interest in supporting us, they're a direct competitor. Do we really
expect that every service in the world just starts to support our push
notification service because we expect them to? We're most likely still
the smallest platform on the market.

- What about P2P services like Syncthing that do not have a server
instance that could generate push notifications.


cheers,
Simon