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Our Blogs Core Dump Apple releases new Mac OS X 10.5.5, iPhone 2.1 seeds
Our Blogs Core Dump Apple releases new Mac OS X 10.5.5, iPhone 2.1 seeds | Apple releases new Mac OS X 10.5.5, iPhone 2.1 seeds |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 31 July 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 The Push Notification Service was announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Apple will maintain a persistent IP connection to iPhones (over the mobile network or Wi-Fi) to forward notifications received from third-party servers. The notifications can take the form of badges, sounds or text. The idea is that instead of leaving applications running in the background and polling for events (which is not supported by Apple's APIs, purportedly because of the effect on battery life), it's up to the server to push the event out to the iPhone via the Apple Push Notification Service. So an instant messaging service could push a badge to an iPhone to show that a new message was waiting. The user would then activate the IM client, read the new message(s), reply, and then leave the client secure in the knowledge that a fresh notification will appear when there's another message to read. Some people have expressed concern that this potentially gives Apple an unacceptable level of insight about what individual owners are doing with their iPhones. What about Mac OS X 10.5.5? See page 2. |
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