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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/11/2013 10:06 AM, Thomas Voß wrote:
> 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:

>>>> 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).
> 

I'm not sure-- definitely worth a discussion when we are planning v2. :)

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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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