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by jerome_etienne 5757 days ago
This idea seem very generic. The application may be more narrow. android 2.2 is already trying to send data from the desktop to the phone. This enter in the same vibe.

imagine youtube movie using this. the phone is an actual remote control. or a presentation with slides, you can control them remotly with your phone.

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That is exactly correct. The application can be as narrow as you wish. Basically, the important things to remember are:

- It lets you push commands without needing a push server.

- It works on the iPhone or Android (and even Windows mobile, and some blackberries).

- It works with most recent major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari), including IE 8, and even Opera.

- It lets you write apps without thinking of it as "sending messages", you just call the function as if it were locally defined.

- Your "app" is hosted on the same server as your website -- the controller is just an HTML page. When TubeMote "wraps" around the controller page (when the controller page gets loaded up inside TubeMote -- and by the way, TubeMote is itsejf just a web page), it enables it to send messages in real time (except that from the point of view of the developer, they need not be thought of as messages, only function calls that look like they are local). This means that all web developers are already "compatible" with it. You don't have to learn anything new to leverage the power.