Apple Testing Notifications on iCloud Website

[gwelmarten]

I quite like that as a feature - I can see a lot of people leaving the iCloud website open for Mail, and it's good that notifications (and maybe iMessage) come through.

 

[CaptainsLog]

dunno about the worlds most valuable company but they should be doing press releases on the MBP instead of notifications on a website.

I'm trying to be nice but...

The people doing press releases aren't the people working on notifications for iCloud. Not even close. If you'd like to suggest some software that you'd rather them be working on that would be a fair point.

It'd be like saying "That astronaut should be building the next spaceship instead of spending all his time in space".

 

[TheOilBaron]

Systray popups

I have the iCloud syncing software installed on my PC and, while it's all very nice just sitting there syncing my photos to my Photo Stream folder, I feel it can be utilised a bit more. Calendar and email popups maybe? Meh, just a thought.

 

[840quadra]

Does anyone else find it aesthetically inconsistent that the close button (the "X") is on the right? Since the original Mac operating system, if I'm not mistaken, the close button has been on the left. The only other place Apple has placed the close button is in those HTML5 "pop-over" (anyone know the name for those) frames, which are often used for enlarging a photo, playing a short video clip, or brining up a quick text box.

Pull down the notification screen on your iOS device and note where the X is located, The right hand side. The iCloud site is consistent with iOS in that regard. It is also the same side the delete button appears when you swipe on an email, text, or other messages within iOS.

The look and feel of iCloud website is designed to take on the feel of iOS more than MacOS.

 

[justinfreid]

Maybe they'll enable iMessage in the browser so it can be used cross platform.

 

[Peace]

This doesn't seem to make much sense considering Mountain Lion has notifications that can be turned on or off.

 

[3282868]

Maybe they'll enable iMessage in the browser so it can be used cross platform.

I'm still hoping for this addition to Messages:

Leopard beta "Answering Machine" iChat feature for FaceTime?

 

[840quadra]

This doesn't seem to make much sense considering Mountain Lion has notifications that can be turned on or off.

Makes perfect sense when accessing the iCloud site from a windows system when you can't be on your Macintosh .

 

[Peace]

Makes perfect sense when accessing the iCloud site from a windows system when you can't be on your Macintosh .

Oh. Windows. I forgot about "them".




btw.

Has anybody tested this using Windows ?

 

[Carl Sagan]

Cool, but I don't know of any reason (yet) that I would be constantly logged into iCloud.

I wonder if apple is planning some features such as iMessage via the icloud web site. or maybe even "back to my mac service" via iCloud and a web browser.

If I were working on a PC or a public computer yet wanted access to my iCloud data this becomes a good proposition. Also consider, Apple decide to add 'apps' to iCloud.com allowing you to launch iMessage in the browser or iTunes match?

 

[840quadra]

Oh. Windows. I forgot about "them".




btw.

Has anybody tested this using Windows ?

Can't say I have tried the notifications, but I do use iCloud daily on my work system. Sometimes people think I have a HUGE iPad at my desk

 

[Northgrove]

kind of cool in theory but why?

Should be releasing the MBP instead of this...

Why doesn't Apple fix all the issues with the current services instead of testing a pointless notification system like this.

they should be doing press releases on the MBP instead of notifications on a website.

Apple has many departments. They can write press releases, design the next MBP, rearrange equipment in a retail store, work on iCloud, work on iOS, work on unannounced products, sketch for products several years ahead of time, work on OS X... All at once... And they do most of these things in parallel every workday.

 

[rmwebs]

mmmm, nice shoddy work there, testing on a live environment. Then again, iCloud does appear to be one big test

 

[Spetsnazos]

mmmm, nice shoddy work there, testing on a live environment. Then again, iCloud does appear to be one big test

this is kind of how I feel too. Maybe they tested internally and now its ready for live though?

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

Does anyone else find it aesthetically inconsistent that the close button (the "X") is on the right? Since the original Mac operating system, if I'm not mistaken, the close button has been on the left. The only other place Apple has placed the close button is in those HTML5 "pop-over" (anyone know the name for those) frames, which are often used for enlarging a photo, playing a short video clip, or brining up a quick text box.

Makes perfect sense when accessing the iCloud site from a windows system when you can't be on your Macintosh .

I think I just put 2 and 2 together!

 

[canman4PM]

kind of cool in theory but why?

Should be releasing the MBP instead of this...

Companies this large (with as many employees), with diverse products tend to have multiple departments/teams, each working on unrelated products. They'll have an iPhone group; iPad group; iPod group; iOS group; Mac group; OSX group; etc. Each working independantly on their own things, except where they cross over - eg, I imagine the iOS people will interact with the iPad/Phone/Pod people as required.

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I can see it now, iPhone, iPad, Mac Pro and MacBook Pro all "pinging" when a notification comes on. I'd be running around my room trying to turn them all off lol (I know, you can set each device with its own settings, just being humorous)

I get that now, if I'm sitting in front of my computer with my phone in my pocket and an email comes in. My iMac goes "DING!" and a second later I get a simmilar, quieter ding coming from my pocket. The computer version of a muffled "what he said."

 

[Small White Car]

I currently only allow notifications on my phone. I have them off on my iPad and I'll turn them off on my Mac and off on iCloud. I don't need them ringing in 4 or 5 different places. It'll be nice to choose WHICH device, I guess, but once you pick one you really don't need it on the others.

kind of cool in theory but why?

Should be releasing the MBP instead of this...

You've got it backwards. The shipping guy is sitting there waiting for a "Send out the Macbook Pros - Today - Noon" notification to pop up on his iCloud page.

We need this notification system to work before we can get Macbook Pros!

Hurry up and get it working!

 

[canman4PM]

Why doesn't Apple fix all the issues with the current services instead of testing a pointless notification system like this. What you gonna do? Sit with iCloud.com open and wait for notifications there? There are already so many issues with iCloud the whole thing is just a big let down...

I have a feeling the point of this type of thing, is that it will work on all devices, without being logged into iCloud. Then all devices you have will notify of whatever, so whichever one you have handy can be used to deal with it.

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I read a brilliant piece on Apple in PC Pro' prolog today, "can Apple cope with the shift from underdog to top dog". As much as I like the new iCloud innovations and improvement over what MobileMe should have been. The fact Apple is dragging it's heels in almost every other area does make me wonder if the "Prosumer" market that Apple seems determined to go after is resulting in it leaving it behind all it's credible root's. We've seen it with FCPX the loss of iWeb etc, development of the Mac Pro and god knows whats happening with Logic.
I am beginning to wonder if Apple can cope..definitely the cracks are beginning to appear, the Malware case and the slow response being one of the first. I hope they can.

I think the likely reason the Pro hasn't been updated in 2 years is that there has been nothing to update it with. Other than sticking a TB hole in the back, there hasn't been a significant processor upgrade until Intel gets the latest chipsets out in numbers. Hopefully soon. Could be wrong. Time will tell.

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Hopefully this means they are working on cloud-based alerts and if you read one on your iPhone it is removed from your iPad, etc.

Can't see the point of it, otherwise. This already works with email between my iMac and iPhone, so...

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Coping with the shift may mean Apple cutting products, drastically changing them, or just simply redefining everything. They have done it before and will do it again. They're not at all afraid to do this. And they don't like to react frantically to things until they know the full story.

Apple has control over its own hardware, its own software, its own ecosystem. Because of this, they can pretty much do anything they need or want to do. I think it's premature to say that PCs are dying, but I think Apple considers the iPod to be its rebirth and is building off of that. PCs are almost starting to seem like machines from another era. The iPod/iPhone/iPad are Apple's "new" roots. Can't wait to see how they build from here.

Agreed. But I think PC's will survive as a common household item until storage for these devices is available cheap - either a hard drive (server-type thing maybe?) built-into you modem to hold your media, Cloud based services can offer Terabytes of storage for an affordable rate, and or the devices themselves can hold massive amounts of data. And of course A/V specialists will, for a long time, require a "real" computer to do their thing on.

 

[Macclone]

Why doesn't Apple fix all the issues with the current services instead of testing a pointless notification system like this. What you gonna do? Sit with iCloud.com open and wait for notifications there? There are already so many issues with iCloud the whole thing is just a big let down...

You could just buy a Dell. Or is complaining about things more fun?

 

[SBlue1]

Now thats a cool idea.

 

[vtstarck]

Can't see the point of it, otherwise. This already works with email between my iMac and iPhone, so...

The only apps that I'm aware of that remove alerts from each device are Mail and iMessage. I could be missing a few but try and get an alert from Facebook or a sports app or basically any 3rd party app. Close the alert on one device and go to the other device. The alert is still there.

 

[Gemütlichkeit]

I really want iCloud to expand. Rival what google apps can do right now. I would love to see a simple cloud storage drive and iWork embedded in browsers.

 

[NAG]

Anyone else remember everyone freaking out before the iCloud launch regarding iCloud having none of the website features that MobileMe had (including fears that there would be no webmail)?

 

[3282868]

Anyone else remember everyone freaking out before the iCloud launch regarding iCloud having none of the website features that MobileMe had (including fears that there would be no webmail)?

Oh yeah. I recall most were upset over losing iDisk (and iDisk Automatic Syncing between Mac's), iWeb and web hosting/domain forwarding, keychain access, and Bookmark Syncing.

I read keychain syncing is rumored to be reworked for Mountain Lion, and Documents will eventually replace iDisk syncing. Shame they eliminated web hosting, I worked with a few small businesses that masked their domain to their MobileMe account and saved hosting costs with GoDaddy or Network Solutions. Using iWeb (albeit inferior/not very well streamlined code wise) was nice for the average Joe to make their own changes. Don't know why they couldn't make room on the server "table" for web hosting.

 

[Defender2010]

You could just buy a Dell. Or is complaining about things more fun?

Well, it is true! Nothing works as it should do, quality has been compromised by Apple, otherwise members of this forum would not be complaining as they do. If you have nothing to add....move along! My comment was and still is justified!