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> Photon's protocol today is tolerant to arbitrary delays, IFF you can guarantee message delivery and ordering, which is the problem TCP solves.

TCP solves that only within the context of a single TCP connection (which I’m sure you know).

That doesn’t seem to handle even common moving laptop use cases, let alone actual mobile users.



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