[sucram6791]

According to a Cult of Mac source, Apple might be buying an App Store app developer in order to improve iOS notifications. This… sounds a little strange. Notifications are certainly one of the weakest remaining elements in iOS, handled better by Android and far more elegantly by webOS. It took Apple until iOS 3 to get copy and paste and iOS 4 to get 3rd party multitasking so my assumption has been notifications were on the list for update but probably not until iOS 5. (Especially after Apple hired back the engineer who developed webOS’ notification system.)

What is there in an iOS 5 notification system Apple can’t build internally? Still, Cult of Mac says:

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Our source, who asked to remain anonymous, didn’t know the identity of the company, except it already has an iPhone app in the App Store.

One candidate is Boxcar, a free app from Appremix that enables push notifications for Twitter, Facebook, and email. Boxcar’s system has been highly praised, especially the new iPad version.

Boxcar is fabulous — I use it all the time — but it’s a third party solution, not something designed and integrated into the OS deeply, the way a new notification system would need to be. I just don’t see it…

…unless this is another one of Apple’s famous talent acquisitions — more and better people to work on what will become iOS 5’s new notification system. That I can see.

What do you think?

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[xxhorseriderxxx]

I think notifications should be pulled down from the status bar like in Android. As long as I can see a history of all my notifications, I would be happy. I don't get many notifications anyway, so I'm not too worried about them getting updated.

[Dazza1]

Crapple are stupid the jailbreak scene has had this for ages if they worked with us instead of against us it would be far better for iOS as they will be on version one and we will be on 3.xxx lol

[helldust]

Apple isn't able to create a OS with some simple features like LockInfo brings to iOS.... and I think everyone likes LockInfo... So maybe they don't want to or they aren't able to. But think of the size of Apple and that there is nobody who can do this?

[thenextkiller]

helldust, on 12 February 2011 - 03:47 AM, said:

Apple isn't able to create a OS with some simple features like LockInfo brings to iOS.... and I think everyone likes LockInfo... So maybe they don't want to or they aren't able to. But think of the size of Apple and that there is nobody who can do this?

There are people who can do this, its just that they dont want to. Its a sign of surrendering to jailbreakers and Apple will never do that.

[sucram6791]

thenextkiller, on 12 February 2011 - 09:52 AM, said:

There are people who can do this, its just that they dont want to. Its a sign of surrendering to jailbreakers and Apple will never do that.

they have before

[Dazza1]

^^^^^Yep multitasking lol

[g0sbv]

can anyone confirm boxcar is still working as both my iphone 4 and ipad 2 both on 5.0.1 have stopped working when it was working last week the small timeline I was pushing was hours old and not up to date have emailed boxcar a couple of times but no reply.. have even made a new account on twitter and boxcar still nothing showing in boxcar or in all messages despite twitter on my pc having new tweets
many thanks in advance..

[pyro9]

Working fine here, my last notification from Boxcar was an update to an RSS feed earlier on today.

iPhone 4, 5.0.1.

[g0sbv]

thanks for your reply.. I have it set for timeline as I only watch a small timeline..but never get anything to show up in either all messages of my twitter account windows... yet if someone retweets me I get a notification ok !! when it was working a while ago I noticed if a new tweet was shown in twitter boxcar showed it up to 18 hours later ??

This post has been edited by g0sbv: 23 January 2012 - 08:39 PM

[pyro9]

I've had plenty of late notifications in the past but I've assumed it's due to the Boxcar servers being overloaded.

Try sending them a tweet @Boxcar, they've responded to me in the past.

Also just noticed this on the twitter:

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Hey Boxcar fans! Heads up: Looking at about a half hour more for maintenance - thanks for your patience!

This post has been edited by pyro9: 23 January 2012 - 08:44 PM