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		amelius on May 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scaling Secret: Real-Time Chat Why not use WebRTC for chat these days?

ozkatz on May 14, 2015 [–]

Secret was a mobile app. WebRTC is not supported on any version of iOS and is supported only on very recent android (5.x)

edit: source: http://caniuse.com/#search=webrtc

albertwang on May 14, 2015 | [–]

That caniuse link refers to mobile safari. WebRTC in iOS is supported for native apps

ozkatz on May 14, 2015 | | [–]

Was not aware of the native support. Thanks.

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