Today most of the applications which delivers information are driven by Real time communications, ever used what app? Whatsapp’s unique selling point is Real time communication which in turn uses sockets.
What do we mean by real time communication?
Well it is no different than conversing to a person physically but here you use a network and device to connect to it, so that you can use the bliss of sockets. Sockets are the key to drive real time communication for almost 98% of the applications.
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