Comments on: Push Notifications On The iPhone Are Great, But…

By: Marcos Dutra

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:44:20 +0000

You are complaining ?
What about the millions of unlocked IPhones which do not allow ANY push notifications?

By: Facebook 3.1 With Notifications Should Soon Highlight The iPhone Push Problem

Facebook 3.1 With Notifications Should Soon Highlight The iPhone Push Problem — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:43:13 +0000

[...] some of us iPhone power users have realized for a while: The Push Notification management system beyond a certain threshold is basically useless. That is to say, when you’re getting a large number of Push Notifications on your iPhone, [...]

By: Boxcar 2.0 Is A Must-Have For the iPhone. It’s The Best Push Notification App Yet.

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:29:42 +0000

[...] this app will be very popular, and hopefully it will push (yes, I went there) Apple into making a better push notification management system for the iPhone. We need to be able to see multiple messages on the locked screen, and keep track of what came in [...]

By: Matthew Lesh

Matthew Lesh — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:00:34 +0000

One solution until Apple updates to a better management system for push is what I’ve worked very hard to do with my app iTweetReply.. it will remember what has been pushed and until the app is opened it it will “cue” notifications: i.e. “Replies from @a, @b. Direct Message from @c”

By: Boxcar Offers Push Notifications from Twitter | Design Website Blog

Boxcar Offers Push Notifications from Twitter | Design Website Blog — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:09:20 +0000

[...] clearly won’t scale, so hopefully Apple has something else in mind for iPhone OS 3.1. TechCrunch devoted a column to this worry recently as [...]

By: Boxcar Offers Push Notifications from Twitter | Design Website Easy

Boxcar Offers Push Notifications from Twitter | Design Website Easy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:28:42 +0000

[...] clearly won’t scale, so hopefully Apple has something else in mind for iPhone OS 3.1. TechCrunch devoted a column to this worry recently as [...]

By: Insider

Insider — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:20:08 +0000

You’re a moron.

By: antonioj

antonioj — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:57:49 +0000

Regarding alternative notification system for iphone, see GriP (grip for iphone), available in beta for jb iphones…it´s what i use to replace stupid popups

http://code.goo...orkpx/wiki/GriP

By: Franz

Franz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:40:42 +0000

I should also mention the way webOS handles the notifications if you want to clear them. You simply expand the notification window by tapping on it, then slide whatever notification to the left or right to dismiss them.

By: Franz

Franz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:37:25 +0000

I kept thinking of the Palm Pre throughout this article. I was a bit shocked when it was never mentioned when Blackberry and Android were.

Palm seems to be the only one to have almost perfectly solved this problem in a very elegant(and Apple-like, some would say) solution.

Seriously try and get a hold of webOS and a Pre and really see what you’re missing.

By: Geektronica

Geektronica — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:35:31 +0000

I would like to see more (configurable) push notifications, but you know what would also be nice? If they fixed the bug that makes SMS notifications block the alarm clock from going off.

Seriously – if you set your alarm clock, go to sleep, and get a text message, the alert/popup that notifies you of the text message will keep your alarm clock from going off until you dismiss it. Which, you know, doesn’t happen if you’re asleep. This has been a problem since at least the 2.0 software update, and continues into 3.0.

By: Excuse me while I go drown myself in Push Notifications! | Macgasm

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:02:07 +0000

[...] doing some quick research mid post, it seems like MG Siegler over at Tech Crunch had the same thoughts yesterday. He raises an excellent point, “The problem is that the Push Notification message indicators [...]

By: Daniel Brierton

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:54:32 +0000

Well, I mean, viable temporary solutions, until Apple do something better

By: financemaster

financemaster — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:13:28 +0000

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By: financemaster

financemaster — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:12:44 +0000

good..congrats dear

By: financemaster

financemaster — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:12:09 +0000

good….

By: financemaster

financemaster — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:11:40 +0000

very well said….

By: financemaster

financemaster — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:10:31 +0000

very well said…

By: financemaster

financemaster — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:09:59 +0000

exactly….. u r right

By: financemaster

financemaster — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:08:42 +0000

you are absolutely right

By: financemaster

financemaster — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:02:32 +0000

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By: Raj

Raj — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:33:54 +0000

I came across this interesting post that spells out an alternative method for apps running as a background process. This may solve the push problem as well assuming the user doesn’t want real time updates, but wants the application updated when they choose to view it.

http://punk.pos...inking-receipts

By: Daniel Brierton

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:48:17 +0000

I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned GRiP or Intelliscreen. I know they’re only for jailbroken devices, but they are viable solutions. Or they will be, once they get support for push notifications

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:28:11 +0000

This still wouldn’t be as good as the G1/Pre, but it would be a step in the right direction and easy for Apple to put in a 3.x release.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:24:04 +0000

Forwarding SMS is already there, so I suspect you’ll only have to wait for the 5GS for the rest of your wants.

The problem with the “so 2003″ comment is that until the Pre, everything else out there was *even worse*, but for different reasons–Mostly that all the features were a horribly disjointed experience to actually use. The Pre gets some things right that the iPhone doesn’t, but it’s still lacking in speed, which is likely because of the multitasking.