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[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/11/2013 06:31 AM, John Lenton wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you clarify the specific use-cases you are trying to
>>> solve/referring to here? As I understand it, friends will only
>>> eventually migrate to the push-notification service and we are good
>>> with what we have right now. Admittedly, polling on a socket is not
>>> what we should or want to do, but we are not limited by implications
>>> of the app lifecycle for friends.
>>
>> depends what you mean with "we are good". We don't need Friends
>> migrated by v0; we definitely need Friends either migrated or off the
>> phone before operators will touch it.
>>
>>> Let's assume the best case and we have native apps for facebook,
>>> twitter, your-favorite-social network apps. How would friends fit in
>>> with this configuration/scenario?
>>
>> that's one I'd love to know. My take is that Friends has value in and
>> of itself, and a lot of people (even on other phones, or the web)
>> would love to have it.
>>
>
> First off, let's not forget we don't have native apps for facebook, twitter, etc
> yet. :)
>
> Secondly, anecdotally, some time ago I switched phones and used stock Android
> for a while on the new phone (I'm now dogfooding of course ;). The OEM for the
> previous phone had something like Friends but with a not so great interface that
> aggregated notifications for various different social accounts, SMS and email
> (it was sorta trying to do what indicator-messages does). Like Friends, it would
> allow you to setup the various accounts independent of the official apps which
> allowed you to read the content and respond to it in a limited way, but unlike
> Friends there seemed to be different applications for each account, ie, the
> OEM's email client, the OEM's facebook client, etc. As clunky as it was, I still
> found it quite useful and missed it on the stock Android experience (maybe there
> was something that did it, I don't know). In this context, aggregating social
> (and messaging) is quite helpful and I think there is still room for something
> like Friends. If Friends continues in this vein, it might be cool if Friends
> could also launch the official apps using the URL to the message with the
> url-dispatcher.
>
> 2 cents...
>

Agreed, having social media deeply integrated with the system is a
really great feature.
One way of doing it could be via a plugin based system where social
networks are modelled by loadable modules such that we could integrate
the push-notification service with friends easily.

However, I think that's more a version 2 topic as it has got both
architectural and security implications (Jamie, please correct me if
I'm wrong).

Cheers,

  Thomas
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