Apple Push Notification server open to developers

Cleve Nettles
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April 09, 2009
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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.

Comments (7)

Calvin Chestnut (not verified) | April 09, 2009 - 4:48pm

Any developers wanna give us a sneak peek of how their using it. Or is all that NDA'd?

Seth Weintraub | April 09, 2009 - 5:05pm

The image you see above is NDA'ed.  Please burn your eyes now

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 09, 2009 - 5:02pm

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.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 10, 2009 - 5:49am

The audio file the notification plays has to already be loaded in the phone as part of the application's installation bundle.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 09, 2009 - 5:29pm

good way to kill your battery.

Sascha (not verified) | April 10, 2009 - 5:55am

it's push
idiot.

An NDA-ed Developer (not verified) | April 10, 2009 - 11:26am

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.