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Am I wrong in thinking this will shortly kill Adobe Connect, WebX, Chat Roulette, IRC, every other messenger platform out there?
by bluetwo 10y ago
Am I wrong in thinking this will shortly kill Adobe Connect, WebX, Chat Roulette, IRC, every other messenger platform out there?
- duskwuff 10y agoYes, you are wrong in thinking that. :) WebRTC is a technology. It is not an application, and cannot replace applications. In the cases of some of those applications, it could conceivably be used to implement future versions of those applications -- but that certainly doesn't equate to "killing" them.
- bluetwo 10y agoOK, thanks. :) I wasn't saying that it would kill them out of the box. I am thinking that those application rely of a heavy dose of proprietary technology in order to pull off their magic, and WebRTC is going to enable countless competitors to arise with much less investment in tech. In the long run, this tends to kill off established applications.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoIRC? Proprietary technology?
- bluetwo 10y agoYou might be missing the point here.
- tokenizerrr 10y ago> I am thinking that those application rely of a heavy dose of proprietary technology > IRC https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1459 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1459
- bluetwo 10y agoSorry. You are absolutely missing the point of my posts. I know it can feel good to tell people they are wrong, but you are off the mark. The point was WebRTC could kill these technologies, all of which are proprietary or one-trick ponies. At least that was my question. I was looking for what others thought on the topic. I clearly was not trying to convince anyone IRC was purely proprietary, and anyone who would read what I wrote and would think that was clearly looking for a fight. I'm not interested. Move along.