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AIM and Beejive Instant Messaging iPhone Apps Updated with Push Notifications
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Just sign out of AIM on your phone when you sign onto your computer. How hard is that?
Will a secret door on the back of the 3GS open? An update to allow flash on the iPhone? What?
If a new iPhone has a new camera and flash, it would be 4.0, as it's a new phone. Otherwise, no update to the software can allow a flash for the camera as-is...
Clarify?
OMG. I dont believe you didnt get what he meant. As the other two poster have already said, Its Adobe Flash which ipoppy was talking about. If apple gets adobe flash for iPhone then there would be very little difference in a full desktop browser and iPhone Safari.
Wow, from reading this, nobody has a clue how push works. Especially the preachers who like to bash everybody else's ideas.
And those people saying 'If you don't get one message a day, you don't need push' - cram it. I paid for push. Maybe I won't get a message one day - people have lives and things to do. If I paid for push, that is what I expect to receive. I don't care if 'I don't need push' - I paid for it, so the developers will deliver. This isn't free software and we're not 'users' - we're customers. That distinction demands a different approach.
Oh, and the push system doesn't involve any app on your phone. The app tells the system that you'll be getting push notifications for app-ID X. Those notifications come from Apple's servers to your phone, and the phone's system displays them. The app doesn't display them, and isn't even involved after the setup step. The developer's servers connect to the IM server, formatting messages and sending the user-friendly portions to Apple.
And those people saying 'If you don't get one message a day, you don't need push' - cram it. I paid for push. Maybe I won't get a message one day - people have lives and things to do. If I paid for push, that is what I expect to receive. I don't care if 'I don't need push' - I paid for it, so the developers will deliver. This isn't free software and we're not 'users' - we're customers. That distinction demands a different approach.
Oh, and the push system doesn't involve any app on your phone. The app tells the system that you'll be getting push notifications for app-ID X. Those notifications come from Apple's servers to your phone, and the phone's system displays them. The app doesn't display them, and isn't even involved after the setup step. The developer's servers connect to the IM server, formatting messages and sending the user-friendly portions to Apple.
So the new Beejive 3.0 with push is like the push notifications for a new SMS message, not an e-mail push message, correct?
In the office and I don't get good 3G signal in here, just Edge. I'm not seeing an upgrade on the app store for me and when I click on Beejive it asks me to Buy Now.
I went ahead and got IM+ mainly just because of the Skype support, if Beejive had that I would have gotten it. For the first few mins. IM+ seems pretty cool. Sure beats opening AIM, close, open Skype, close. open Facebook.....you get the idea. I can be patient and wait for the update.
It was working smooth and flawlessly before today's update. Push does work almost instantaneously.
Major issues:
1. App keeps crashing even after a reboot.
2. Scrolling though my Buddies list is not smooth anymore and freezes
3. Switching between chat (touching the top bar of the person's name) brings me out of the app.
My settings:
1. Display only online friends
2. GTalk, Facebook and MSN Messenger accounts only
Anyone else having these issues? I'm using 3G iPhone (no jailbreak).
Although I'm having some issues, Beejive is great and the push works as advertised.
Please note the push notification does not come via SMS or email push message. It shows up like a message on your screen when the app is closed/locked iPhone and the app icon will display a badge with number of unread messages. Touch on the push message automatically opens Beejive.
Right, thats what I meant - similar in the fashion that SMS messages are pushed as a notification on the screen and your iPhone is locked.
Hopefully my phone will tell me there's an upgrade on the app store...if not I'll have to find some WiFi during my lunch break
Push is nice, Iphone notification system is not. I wait with anticipation the solutions that will come from the jailbreak comunity to replace the stupid popups in the middle of the screen
This is one of the solutions that will suport push notifications
http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/wiki/GriP
This is one of the solutions that will suport push notifications
http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/wiki/GriP
I've attached MANY buddy's with address book contacts today and it hasn't crashed once.
What is your point? Did anyone in this entire thread say anything incorrect about how push works? And when did you "pay for push"? I got the 3.0 software for free and the AIM app for free.
The thing you don't seem to understand is that without real background apps there are going to be a lot of compromises in a lot of apps, not just IM clients. I don't really see how a Skype client, for example, could work all that well. Are you going to get a push notification when you get a phone call? Can I ever have an app that shuts off the ringer automatically after a certain time?
I just wish Apple would open things up. There's an army of people out there developing apps and I wouldn't mind seeing some that interact more directly with the OS to do things that have great utility instead of having 47 different fart applications.