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Re:Show HN: Radio - My first Mac app by dglancy on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @06:59AM (#5904806)
It is a great idea and should be possible so long as Apple is willing to approve an sandboxed app that accepts incoming connections (listens) on a port against the local interface.
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Re:Show HN: Radio - My first Mac app by quesera on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @08:34AM (#5905109)
The bridge could be the listener, and the sandboxed apps could open a connection to it. This is probably preferable design anyway.

The apps should request subscription to a set of keypress events, the bridge should get approval from the user (maybe only if the app requests keys other than F keys and media keys?). The bridge should be discoverable by local bonjour rather than running on a known port.

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