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TheHenry to TheHenry's feed, All Things Apple, iPhone, 3G iPhone, iPhone Apps
I am extremely excited for PUSH notifications on the iPhone 3.0 OS! I can't wait! What are your thoughts?
June 15, 2009
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I think it will mostly be used by existing web apps with an existing infrastructure which only make a new frontend for that service for the iPhone.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
I'm definitely waiting for push notifications, too, although I think background apps would be even better, if Apple would allow it / figure out how to not make them drain the battery.
- Ryan - @magicofpi
I've been playing with push on the latest AIM beta app. The alerts are almost instant, probably because not many people are using it right now, but overall, the experience is pretty good.
- Keith Bennett
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Oh, that's good to hear. Do you think the notifications will be affected when 3.0 is available to (and downloaded by) everybody?
- Ryan - @magicofpi
I'm not sure if it will, but from what I remember, don't forget that push requires 2 extra servers (or banks of servers). Apple provide the push to iPhone, but the 3rd party also needs it's own service. It remains to be seen how this will affect the service, but from what I've played with, ie AIM push, it's is very good. The AIM app is a bit crap though.
- Keith Bennett
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