iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th

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Quillz

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PUSH!

I'm getting really excited right now...

Yay for Push!

I might be missing something here, but doesn't the iPhone already support "push" technology? I thought that's the point of ActiveSync and MobileMe...

I'm glad they're not allowing for background apps

Why? And how come Apple still hasn't delivered that background-like service they promised last June?

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I might be missing something here, but doesn't the iPhone already support "push" technology? I thought that's the point of ActiveSync and MobileMe...

Why? And how come Apple still hasn't delivered that background-like service they promised last June?

This is for developers and their respective third party applications. So an IM application like Meebo or AIM can send push notifications, even if the application is closed.

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Why? And how come Apple still hasn't delivered that background-like service they promised last June?

because it allows developers to push the hardware as much as they can because they know there won't be other processes in the background slowing down the app or game

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Elliot B.

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Can we have some improvements in basic iPhone applications like SMS and Mail

I like the way they do things - it makes sense from a business sense. Do things other phones can't do instead of do everything the same.

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Quillz

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This is for developers and their respective third party applications. So an IM application like Meebo or AIM can send push notifications, even if the application is closed.

Oh, so this is the service that was supposed to be available back in September, right? I guess better late than never.

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Elliot B.

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Oh, so this is the service that was supposed to be available back in September, right? I guess better late than never.

"We expected to have this last year, and we didn't. There's a few reasons for this. Within months of launching the App Store, we had 1000's of apps. And lots of devs came to us and talked about using Push in ways that we hadn't even considered. So we had to re-architect the server structure." "Now, we're good to go."

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Yep because we don't provide a constant revenue stream with our Touch's because ATT pays royalities to Apple to use have the ability to sell the iPhone for use on their network. So unfrotunately we get stuck to paying for features that the iPhone owners get for free.

Yes and next version I bet Apple will impose some artifical feature in the new touch/phone that the old ones wont support and end making updates for the touch models that dont have it so you will need to buy the latest and greatest (Apple has done this since the 68k macs and no one ever seems to care)

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