Comments on: Work Smarter Using iPhone Push Notifications

By: Kimble is a tard

Kimble is a tard — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:21:34 +0000

Hi Kimble, you are a retard. If you can stop frothing at the mouth with apple-hate long enough, go read how Push actually works. It is a service and it can end up eating your battery much faster because it is always listening, i.e. it keeps the wifi card running if it's using that and it sends a TCP heartbeat every 15 min or so.

By: Elliott Burton

Elliott Burton — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:25:53 +0000

You are such a loser! The iPhone is cool and fun. Do you have no friends and spend all your time working? Get a life!!!

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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:01:43 +0000

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By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:22:41 +0000

What are you on about? Firstly, polling is a work around for push! Its far more efficient to communicate only when data is available, rather than asking every five minutes if something has changed only to be told no.

Secondly How on earth could push work with out running a program in the background? If you are browsing the web, and a notification comes in, are you saying the safari deals with it?!

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WWD’s 2009 in Review, Part 2 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:01:34 +0000

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By: Josh Tessier

Josh Tessier — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:07:04 +0000

Another push notification service, similar to iLime is http://www.appnotify.com/

By: Ryno

Ryno — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:27:05 +0000

I’m set up for g-mail, syncing contacts to Google, syncing Calendars to Google… it all works perfectly and with push turned on, it happens in near real-time. In fact, me and my wife have access and sync each other’s calendars on our iph… I can add an event to my iPhone calendar and in a matter of minutes, it displays on her iPhone calendar. You are awesome, Google.

The last thing I’d like is sync’ing my Chrome bookmarks to my phone (it’s already syncing between home and work).

By: Tim Courtney

Tim Courtney — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:38:16 +0000

Yes, Push Notifications are adding significant functionality to iPhone apps, making them more useful for users and increasing engagement over time. This subject deserves more attention, especially as more apps come out and we see new use cases (a somewhat recursive example of this is Bargain Bin – http://appsto.re/bargainbin/info).

Shifting gears, iPhone developers who want to implement Push services (APNS) will be interested in checking out our iLime API for sending Push alerts (http://www.ilime.com) that launched over the weekend at iPhoneDevCamp in California.

Also, the first 25,000 pushes sent each month are free, which can be a quite cost-effective service for many apps, and helpful for testing. :-)

Any questions, feel free to email info@ilime.com or follow @iLimeBuzz.

By: Kimble

Kimble — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:42:29 +0000

You do realise that iphone push isn’t a wonderful game changing feature but a poor work around for a phone that doesn’t multi task.

Think about it for a second. If your apps could run in the background in a “service” mode then they could poll the info they need rather than having to push notifications etc.

Give me one example of where push isn’t just a stupid work around. In the meantime have a read about why iphones suck. You’ll soon realise you wasted your money on a pretty toy.

http://www.iphonessuck.com/

By: MK

MK — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:01:51 +0000

Push will be really useful when I can say which emails are important enough to give me an alert. Right now, I have to use text messages for important alerts such as when a server is down, but alerts from email will be much better.

By: Saratoga Sam

Saratoga Sam — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:12:29 +0000

Does it work? From what I’ve heard and read, that it’s not a very useful or dependable feature.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:23:02 +0000

No text alerts at all: I feel like Apple just took the easy route with the device implementation – using UIAlertViews.

I think they should have done something less intrusive like the Palm Pre and its dedicated notifications area: perhaps integration with the status bar at the top (extended height, like during a call or internet tethering). That way allowing multiple notifications and the ability to launch their designated app later.

Right now you have to either dismiss the alert or launch the app: there’s no way to come back to notifications – even worse: when you receive a notification when the device is locked, there’s no way to launch the designated app after the display timeout – the notification appears again, but has no option to launch the app.

Sure the concept is awesome and there’s a whole lot of logistics behind it, but that’s my weird perfectionist view on it.

By: Darrell Etherington

Darrell Etherington — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:14:14 +0000

Michael, what would you suggest as a better front-end implementation? No text alerts when you’re actively using your phone?

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By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:45:19 +0000

The concept of push is awesome and the backend implementation is awesome, but I find the actual device implementation pretty bad: I don’t want an alert to steal focus when I’m using my phone for notifications.

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