Apple told developers today that their Push Notification servers were ready for testing. Those developers whose application hope to operate behind the scenes will need to use this service to notify users of new information. From Apple:
The Apple Push Notification service provides a way to alert your users of new information, even when your application isn't running. Send text notifications, trigger audible alerts, or add a numbered badge to your application icon.
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Any developers wanna give us
Any developers wanna give us a sneak peek of how their using it. Or is all that NDA'd?
The image you see above is
The image you see above is NDA'ed. Please burn your eyes now
wait, Ive got a question.
wait, Ive got a question. Didnt apple say that one of the things that push notification could do was send an audio alert to the device. If so, then what is stopping the people who make pandora from sending you the song your listening to as a (albeit long) audio alert.
The audio file the
The audio file the notification plays has to already be loaded in the phone as part of the application's installation bundle.
good way to kill your
good way to kill your battery.
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it's push
idiot.
I'll tell ya ...
It works sweet. I can push a notification out via a .php script on my server and before my page even refreshes the notification has hit my device. Very nice so far. It took five minutes to set this up.