[Kyle Matthews]

Apple today sent out an email to all registered iPhone devs letting them know the Push Notification service is live for testing now. Up until now, only a few select developers had access to push - now the floodgates are open for anyone to test live.

Here comes push, people.

[nave3d]

FINALLY! I CANT BELIEVE IT
after waiting almost a year! maybe even longer..

[sn0ws]

coool.... but few questions.
1. Didn't 3.0 enable push already?
2. Since this is testable by more people does that mean 2.2 is supporting it or do you have to test on 3.0?

[lifesmymachine]

I'm excited! one step closer........ summer can't come soon enough

Originally Posted by sn0ws

coool.... but few questions.
1. Didn't 3.0 enable push already?
2. Since this is testable by more people does that mean 2.2 is supporting it or do you have to test on 3.0?

1. That is one of the main features of 3.0 yes, but no it wasn't enabled yet for developers beta testing the release (until now)
2. The newest 3.0 beta is the only iPhone software that supports push at the moment. This cool new feature does not work on 2.2, but will be available to us all sometime this summer when 3.0 goes live and out of beta.

[Buddy17]

wow...i used to be big in the iphone scene, and big into jailbreaking, but when i jailbroke 2.2 waaaaaay back in time, i have yet to have a single problem...that means i have yet to visit the forums in a long time.

so, anyone care to explain what this really does for applications? I know what push is, such as push email, but there is a lot of hype for push apps, and i guess i'm just missing the point completely on what all the hype is about? Anyone care to fill in a newb?

[djdon]

how come this website is always late with the news?

[BenzoHartt]

Originally Posted by djdon

how come this website is always late with the news?

LATE?!? ModmyI is great, fast and usually accurate. Why do you think they are late with this info?



On a different note, i'm glad that push has been opened up. I'd love to try out that meebo beta. :-)

[confucious]

Originally Posted by Buddy17

so, anyone care to explain what this really does for applications?

I'm sure someone will correct it if I'm wrong, but as I understand it 'Push' as implemented here allows applications to notify you of changes. As the iPhone does not have background applications at the moment if you are not in your IM programme (for example) you will not get the notification on your phone until you access the app.
With Push the app will be able to 'push' a notification to youeven if you are not in the app at that time. There are many other uses for push (such as app updates etc) which haven't been available before.

[ssfirme]

how do you get it.

[BenzoHartt]

Originally Posted by confucious

I'm sure someone will correct it if I'm wrong, but as I understand it 'Push' as implemented here allows applications to notify you of changes. As the iPhone does not have background applications at the moment if you are not in your IM programme (for example) you will not get the notification on your phone until you access the app.
With Push the app will be able to 'push' a notification to youeven if you are not in the app at that time. There are many other uses for push (such as app updates etc) which haven't been available before.

^^^ well put!^^^

The PUSH feature saves the battery life by allowing the application to be off until its actually needed. Think of it as a minimized screen with pop-ups, its conveniently out of the way.

Originally Posted by ssfirme

how do you get it.

There's nothing to get, its built in to the new OS.

[bteamer]

Originally Posted by djdon

how come this website is always late with the news?

Hahahahaha!!!!. You actually made me just laugh out loud. If you weren't so LAZY, you could look at the time pf posted this, and you would see it was at MIDNIGHT, the day push came out. So, quiet down child. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. :Tucks in:

[BenzoHartt]

Originally Posted by bteamer

Hahahahaha!!!!. You actually made me just laugh out loud. If you weren't so LAZY, you could look at the time pf posted this, and you would see it was at MIDNIGHT, the day push came out. So, quiet down child. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. :Tucks in:

^^^^LMAO @ :Tucks In:^^^^


:Him so cute: .lol

[MaxGQC]

Originally Posted by bteamer

Hahahahaha!!!!. You actually made me just laugh out loud. If you weren't so LAZY, you could look at the time pf posted this, and you would see it was at MIDNIGHT, the day push came out. So, quiet down child. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. :Tucks in:

djdon is right

Here on modmyi:
Today, 12:12 AM

The iPhone Blog:
Apple Push Notification Service Available for Testing… Today!
Posted on Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 by Rene Ritchie

First comment:
matt hall Says:
April 9th, 2009 at 3:49 pm

[wgm214]

Meebo's app looks great and its the only thing keeping me from buying beejive. I wish I could be one of their testers

[Poseidon79]

I don't know if many of you realize this or not.. but the Admins and Mods on this forum are REAL PEOPLE with REAL LIVES to live. We don't spend 24 hours a freaking day trolling the internet for news to post up withing seconds of it's initial release. The fact is that MMi is among the best and most comprehensive Apple forums in the world and we try our best. For those of you who claim we are late, look yourself in the mirror because I'm sure you didn't jump to write up an ORIGINAL review for us to move to the News section of this forum.