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by jamii 5494 days ago
> Everybody had a Sidekick username, and your app could send a packet of information to any other Sidekick as long as you knew their username. That was guaranteed to be delivered and guaranteed to be delivered in sequence. Made all sorts of neat social / sharing apps dead simple to write.

Telepathy offers the same API over various backends (via Tubes - http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Tubes). Telepathy is already heavily used in Gnome and some apps are starting to use Tubes (http://people.collabora.co.uk/~cassidy/talks/TelepathicDeskt...).
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martey 5494 days ago
I am pretty sure that the vast majority of mobile phones do not support Telepathy. While your comment is interesting for people consider desktop Linux development, it is a bit off-topic in a discussion about mobile platforms.
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jamii 5494 days ago
Maemo/MeeGo does, which means that a fair few Nokia phones and tablets do. I believe Sony's upcoming NGP will use Telepathy as well but I can't find a reference right now.

Regardless, my point was that the API has since been reproduced and is in wide use on non-mobile platforms, not that every mobile phone supports it.

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