WebRTC App is Like a Formal Living Room
Jan 2nd, 2014 by Aswath
Inasmuch the main utility of a formal living room is to entertain visiting guests, a WebRTC allows guests to initiate a communication session with the subscriber of the app that utilizes WebRTC.
Many go to enormous lengths to furnish and decorate a living space normally called Living Room. Notwithstanding the expense involved and the name, it is used mostly when guests are visiting. When we are entertaining guests and they are using the amenities in that room, there is no question of whether the guests have similar room and similar amenities in their houses. The only requirement is that they visit you and that you are ready to host them.
So is the case with WebRTC apps. The main reason for the app and for you to sign up for one is so people can initiate communication session with you. The only requirements are that your guests have a compatible browser and that you are willing to communicate with them.
Just because you have a lavish formal Living room does not mean that when you visit one of your friends you will experience similar luxury. Similarly, subscribing to a WebRTC app may not imply that you can initiate a communication session to one of your friends. In this respect, WebRTC apps for for receiving only. This is critical. Anyone suggesting differently is misleading you.
The image is courtesy of AvaLiving.com
Aswath,
I think you have a point, but I want to take issue with it being a blanket statement.
My next article talks about the issues of discovery and what to do about it.
For the most part, many of the apps that we are seeing are not as ad hoc as we would like them to be.
So the formal living room is not only apt analogy, it also deals with the restrictive nature of the implementations.
However, I would say that is a problem of the developer and not WebRTC.
I am hoping for a much more active web community with WebRTC and with them, I am hoping we can start to see apps move into the den, the kitchen and even out on the deck.
Don’t be trapped by the trapezoid. Other models are coming.
It is ironic that you are asking me not to be trapped by the trapezoid. That is what I said in 2006 when I came and gave a presentation to Pulver, you and others. Apparently I failed to make an impression then. You really should take a serious look at EnThinnai and its architecture.
By the way, I am hoping that you are not taking me literally wrt Living Room, by mentioning den, kitchen and deck.