[gsich]

>The death kneel was the lack of a google/apple cloud-backed IRC app, so any mobile use of IRC was pretty much a death wish for your battery (this may have changed but meh damage has already been done).

Not really. Google/Apple also have a connection (or more) open to their servers, but IRC would kill the battery? It's the usage, not that the connection is open.

[o-__-o]

Yes, really.. because IRC sends traffic all of the time over the connection (PING? PONG!) so your client is always reacting rather than using a cloud-based service to keep the connection alive and only relay specific messages to your device.

IRC is devastating to your battery and back in the 2006-2008 times no one created such a service and thus no one could IRC on the go without a hot phone a dead battery after 2 hours.. pretty limiting to a communication platform if I would say so myself