Apple: No push apps for you...come back next year!
Sun, 08/17/2008 - 21:17 — Quincy Pince-Nez
It looks like developers who were interested in making their iPhone apps function in the background are going to have to wait longer than they originally anticipated. Apple has taken the push functionality out of its latest iPhone 2.1 Beta 4 software and it will likely be omitted from the final 2.1 iPhone software. While this key capability was scheduled to be delivered in September, it looks as though Apple will most likely bypass this deadline and wait until version 2.2 of the iPhone is released - probably around Macworld. Apple has recently botched its MobileMe release and is probably more risk averse to releasing what could be buggy software without properly QA testing it first..
No word from Apple yet on these developments.
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Pulled for Development
I bet it was only pulled because they are working on a new implementation, but this was only halfway done and so it got pulled in order to ship beta 4.
Are you sure about this?
Your headline says next year. Is this really true?
I would rather them not ship
I would rather them not ship something that does not work then to pull a Microsoft and release buggy software and have their users pay to test they bad coding efforts.
Apple = buggy releases
I don't know what you are talking about: the iPhone is extremely buggy, v2 is even worse than v1. Maybe they just want to stop screwing things up as they seem to make an habit of.
That is a total overreaction.
That is a total overreaction. It's been pulled from the latest beta. There's nothing to say it wont return. That's the whole point of betas, and this kind of irresponsible knee jerk (or just plain jerk) journalism is the reason for closed betas in the first place.
Six weeks from 2.0 to 2.1,
Six weeks from 2.0 to 2.1, but 2.2 isn't coming until NEXT YEAR?
I call shenanigans.
I see a lot of words like
I see a lot of words like "probably" and "likely" on the article but no proof/source of the delay at all.
When does iPhone 3.0 come out
When does iPhone 3.0 come out again? ;)
Can't wait for MW 09...
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