When iPhone Push Works… It Works WELL!
Posted on 25 June 2009, at 10:00 am, by Dan Cohen
I have been a bit disappointed in Apple’s new Push Notification service for iPhone 3.0. First off, a week after 3.0’s release the number of apps using it is super limited. Add to that the fact that the few that are out are buggy as can be and it makes you wonder how good this system will really be.
Well, fear not! I am running an early pre-release of SHAPE Services IM+ with push and it is working perfectly! I got a series of IMs pushed to me from both Travis and Wayne and each time it worked like a champ!
Word from our friends at SHAPE Services is that the app is with Apple and under review so it could be out any time now. Here is just one example…
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June 25th, 2009 at 11:59 am
So… what happens when one of your friends decides to send 10 messages in a row? Do later notifications cancel out previous ones, or will you have to click through 10 of them/click view (taking you out of your current app) if you want to ignore them?
June 25th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
SO JEALOUS! I want that app with Push SO BAD.
June 25th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
@bluemonq: With Beejive, only the latest message shows up as an alert (overriding the earlier ones), and the badge on the app shows the total number of messages received. Probably the same with IM+. Beejive is totally unstable, though. It crashes whenever I try to reply to a pushed message, but then I usually have a bunch of other stuff running as well.
June 25th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
@bluemonq: With Beejive, only the latest message shows up as an alert, overriding the earlier notifications, and the badge on the app icon shows the total number of messages received. Probably the same with IM+.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I’ve been using IM+ all day. It was my client of choice before… And still is. The app works great. I’m really impressed with the push implementation and don’t expect to be using SMS nearly as much now.