You have to pay Apple to issue a certificate because you have to use their servers and they can revoke this certificate at any time.
You can argue that these decisions make sense, but in the end it's still a walled garden with a tollbooth.
Is it just me or does anyone else really hate getting notifications? I disable everything and wish I could turn notification center off completely.
This new feature sounds super annoying.
What grudge with Engadget? Are you sure you don't mean Gizmodo?
I doubt that Apple would block MacRumors. Apple loves this site I'm pretty sure.
To all those complaining about this feature, just don't turn it on. Don't enable it on any website that requests it. 'Nuff said.
It is just you. You can disable app with useless (or useless to you) notifications, or like I do I just disable the last 5 entries in notification Center and keep only for app which is important I remember things.
Why is it super annoying? I love push notifications on my iPhone. It's so much better than notifications on my Mac which is usually delivered through e-mail. THAT'S what's annoying!
Notifications are on by default for apps, web sites will likely be opt in. Eventually, some sites will be automatic I am sure. Such as Apple.com. etc etc. You can't turn notification center off completely, you have to disable everything manually.
Yes, but you can't disable Notification Center. You have to manually manage all your apps. And the icon never goes away.
It is annoying because on my computer I am usually working, thus I check things when I need to. When I get notifications, it is an interruption to work, or play, or whatever I am doing. If you are a busy person eg multiple shared calendars, shared dropboxes and email accounts, you get a lot of notifications. So notification center is useless for work. If I could tell it to only notify me when a certain thing I am waiting for happened...then fine. But otherwise it is just a constant stream of annoying notifications. So I disable everything. But the icon won't go away.
I don't mind notifications on my phone because I can set it to silent and check it every once in a while. On a computer I am staring at the screen and constant little bubbles keep popping up.
I am sure notification center is great for people who really want to follow online threads, or know when they got their daily email or some such..but as an actual tool for important notifications, it falls short in my opinion. One of the worst Apple features, and I can't even hide the button.
But is that going to mean that every time I visit one of these registered sites I'm going to get a system pop-up saying "MacRumors would like to send you push notifications"? If this catches on and lots of sites register this could get really annoying really quickly. Yes, you could no doubt turn the function off, but I think a lot of people might want to use it for maybe news websites and aren't going to want to have to say no to every other retailer's website they visit that wants to be able to push notify them of their latest sale items every other day.
This could be extremely useful and possible a replacement for my rss reader.
You have to pay Apple to issue a certificate because you have to use their servers and they can revoke this certificate at any time.
You can argue that these decisions make sense, but in the end it's still a walled garden with a tollbooth.
That was my first thought. I relied heavily on Reeder to keep up on specific news and articles related to my field. Reeder has been empty and useless since June 28.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can continue following websites with RSS?
What an annoying "feature". Get spammed directly in your web browser.
To all those complaining about this feature, just don't turn it on. Don't enable it on any website that requests it. 'Nuff said.
Jesus, if you are SO annoyed by your notification center (and the hours of work to turn an app off in the settings), just do this:
http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_disable_notification_center_mountain_lion
Even the so terribly annoying icon will disappear with the permanent method.
please, stop using common sense -- they cant handle it.
This will be a timesaver if MR uses it. Now I can find out when I'm put in Time Out without leaving my desktop.
I hope MacRumors uses this feature.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can continue following websites with RSS?
Try Feedly. I imported my Google Reader subscriptions into this. Best RSS reader to "consume" blog news etc., in my opinion. Works directly in your browser/via plugin on your Mac, iPhone/iPad companion apps do exist too, of course. Second place: Flipboard. Both really "magazine"-like, but you can change that at least in Feedly to a more "list" like view, too. If you still need it more simplistic, there are some other Reeder clones for Mac and iOS out there.