Comments on: Google Acquires Firebase. Is WebRTC Part of Google’s Plans for it? https://bloggeek.me/google-acquires-firebase/ The leading authority on WebRTC Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tsahi Levent-Levi https://bloggeek.me/google-acquires-firebase/#comment-117729 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:15:39 +0000 http://bloggeek.me/?p=9077#comment-117729 In reply to Ryan C. Payne.

Ryan,

Thanks. I wonder how this will look like in a month or two.

]]> By: Ryan C. Payne https://bloggeek.me/google-acquires-firebase/#comment-117728 Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:27:26 +0000 http://bloggeek.me/?p=9077#comment-117728 I would welcome the WebRTC folks integrating Firebase in the sample app because when they do, they will see an interesting crash that I have stumbled upon today. At the present time, attempting to use the WebRTC code from the apprtc demo and the Firebase framework in an iOS application does not work. Both work fine alone. Place both of them together and the WebRTC code, specifically the RTCPeerConnectionFactory, blows chunks all over the place.

]]> By: Tsahi Levent-Levi https://bloggeek.me/google-acquires-firebase/#comment-117727 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:00:35 +0000 http://bloggeek.me/?p=9077#comment-117727 In reply to Ron Szpak.

Ron,

I don’t see this in their future so fast. Nextbit has a very ambitious task to deal with that has little to do with real time comms.

]]> By: Ron Szpak https://bloggeek.me/google-acquires-firebase/#comment-117726 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:12:29 +0000 http://bloggeek.me/?p=9077#comment-117726 In reply to Tsahi Levent-Levi.

Tashi,

Nextbit just announced their product Baton with Google Ventures as a investor.

Maybe Nextbit will extend their mobile product with real-time communications in the future? Founders are ex-Google dudes.

]]> By: Tsahi Levent-Levi https://bloggeek.me/google-acquires-firebase/#comment-117725 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:55:30 +0000 http://bloggeek.me/?p=9077#comment-117725 In reply to Ron Szpak.

Ron,

Thanks for the comment. It also brings the question of what comes next – what next interesting investment will Google do in the real time space.

]]> By: Ron Szpak https://bloggeek.me/google-acquires-firebase/#comment-117724 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 02:12:17 +0000 http://bloggeek.me/?p=9077#comment-117724 Another piece of technology Google has acquired to “fill-in” the puzzle for real-time communications for the Google Cloud Platform for developers to innovate and deliver a new breed of communications applications that may combine text chat, voice push-to-talk, voice group call, high definition video conference calling, voice/video recording and playback, real-time collaborative whiteboarding, etc. with integrated data analytics.

Yep! As you mentioned…”need a signalling framework”, Firebase may be the answer. Firebase is focused on creating a real-time backend to deliver real-time apps.

You may be spot on!…this may be a killer acquisition!

Now you only have to deal with two-tiers….the Backend and the Mobile/Web Client.

Exciting and innovative communications applications are being delivered with WebRTC and Firebase today (i.e. Citrix GoToMeeting, TalkBoard). Many interesting innovation communications apps (i.e. Voxer, Zello, Talko) leveraging WebRTC today.

I think this acquisition has the potential to deliver a superset of Apple’s Continuity feature in iOS and OS X on Android, Chrome OS and Chrome Browser (OS X, Windows) hosted on the Google Cloud Platform in the future. True seamless communications transitions between your computing devices (Mobile, Tablet, Laptop, Desktop) leveraging location, sensing your nearby devices via Bluetooth, sensing bandwidth and possibly other “stateful information” to intelligently enhance communications….more digital magic!

I see a “hellfire of innovation” arriving in realtime communications in the Google Cloud Platform.

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