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Because there's never a guarantee the app is open, especially on mobile.

If we take your Snapchat example , if one user is trying to send a message to another and their app is closed or their device is off, where does the message go ?

On the desktop you have the luxury of mostly running in the background to pick up the ping, but it's almost never the case on mobile.




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