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LOL. Can't you guys just talk to somebody in China (if not possible in NK) before politicizing anything and everything here?
This kind of app is nothing new. Android / Wifi ad hoc based applications have been around for years, with millions of users already, "even" in China. Check out this Zapya, http://www.kuaiya.cn/ With its android, ios prison-break, and ios versions, Zapya has been long boasting 30 million users. all of them are way before this FireChat thing.
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http://mobile.huddler.com/products/icrowdsurf-for-iphone
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<header class="fyre-comment-head" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Catson <time class="fyre-comment-date" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 10px; float: none; background: none;">Mar 31, 2014</time>
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The potential of the dynamic mesh network, however, once it's past the critical mass, is humongous.
Bad choice of the headline to get attention to the topic.
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<header class="fyre-comment-head" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">gametheoryman <time class="fyre-comment-date" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 10px; float: none; background: none;">Mar 30, 2014</time>
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<header class="fyre-comment-head" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">bkentgreen <time class="fyre-comment-date" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 10px; float: none; background: none;">Mar 29, 2014</time>
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At $175 a pop, Homeland Security could have outfitted a pretty fair sized network for a very modest cost. And they still could ......if they were actually interested in homeland security that is .......Sigh
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