Comments on: iPhone Push Notification Service Waiting on Mac Snow Leopard Server?

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:55:12 +0000

I don't get the linkage here, perhaps someone could explain it to me.

If this speculative linkage were true, (Waiting for Snow Leopard) what does it say about push for apps in general?

To me it says Apple is planning to bring it home, and tie the phone even more tightly to their infrastructure and only offer app-push thru their own data centers.

But Apple does not have enough infrastructure to handle 14 million iphone customers, and sopping up all Snow Leopard production to build them would be silly.

There is no reason why any commodity blade servers could not handle this functionality way cheaper than Apples own gear.

So where does this linkage come in?

By: Burnsaa

Burnsaa — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:38:38 +0000

Well apple said September right they however didn’t specify a year so for all we know it could be coming this September. But by then I will hopefully be multitasking away on my new palm pre.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:41:28 +0000

No, I think whatever Apple uses on their own backend won't effect Mac or PC users any more than iTunes or MobileMe tech does.

They just need to build out their own system and get it rock solid.

By: sting7k

sting7k — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:10:15 +0000

What about Windows users? How does this effect us? Is Apple just going to abandon >80% of the market out there on this?

By: Bill Taroli

Bill Taroli — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:50:49 +0000

No more updates? There is PLENTY Apple could be doing with the iPhone OS without touching the hardware. Copy/paste. Video. Completing PIM functionality. That's just the surface.

As for PNS, I'm so done waiting for that. I've been using jailbroken apps to fill functionality and usability gaps as much as possible. And recently I added Backgrounder to that list. With it, I background the App Store-based IM application Beejive. Works great. Doesn't eat my battery, as much fear mongering ad there is on that matter.

Rather than fight the user community on the jailbreak, they should be treating it as a cry for help and doubling their efforts to improve and enhance the OS and apps to give us what we clearly so desperately want that we're willing to forego OS updates and hck to OS to get. Paying attention Apple? I sure hope so!

By: Manuel R. Ciosici

Manuel R. Ciosici — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:39:04 +0000

@iPhoneMilk I’m happy when I see iPhone updates. Also, since about 7 months have passed since the AppStore launch, Apple could use the feedback from the developers to improve the platform. Also they could add some more APIs for the webapplications to use.

By: iPhoneMilk

iPhoneMilk — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:22:54 +0000

i have to be honest here folks.

I don't want to see anymore iPhone updates. I'm done. NO MORE iPHONE UPDATES.

instead i want to see a new iPhone itself.

By: Omari James

Omari James — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:08:35 +0000

I think they will probably release it with OS X 10.6 because apple said they were planning on a release. They might release a bunch of big features all in one event. They just can’t forget about the release. Maybe it might even come in 2.3 iPhone OS. I really hope they do not hold out till the next iPhone because by then the new hardware on the new iPhone should be able to pull of multi-tasking and PNS would be obsolete. Although they might add PNS as a feature — an alternate to multi-tasking to save battery. Who knows. I’m just brainstorming.

By: Frog

Frog — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:56:23 +0000

It’s pointless on the current hardware. The battery will be dead by lunchtime!

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:53:23 +0000

Guess is WWDC 2009, usually June – August time frame.