are you sure? the way the message was phrased seemed to me that this particular redeem code was only valid on the US store - not that all redeem codes were US only
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Apple Beginning High-Volume iPhone OS 3.0 Push Notification Testing
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are you sure? the way the message was phrased seemed to me that this particular redeem code was only valid on the US store - not that all redeem codes were US only
I'm a UK dev and I still got it
Doesnt work in the UK store though
Yup, I also got the email yet was told the code was only available in the US as usual.
I know how to do that what I meant was controlling not what type of alerts i get such as badges and so on. I meant controlling what the AP app would notify me of such as breaking news, sports, weather or something else.
Since this is just testing I imagine its just not an option yet. But Id hate to have apps that notify me of what they want to notify me of, not what I want to be notified of.
Gotcha. I think an app can do whatever it darn well pleases in terms of what they notify you of. Of course if they want a good customer report, they will give you the option. Like, I only want sports and technology thank you. Goldman Sachs? Not so much.
Still no email. But then again, Apple probably doesn't consider me an active developer since I am still writing/debugging my apps.
If you're outside the US and want to get the Associated Press app working, then read the tutorial at http://bendodson.com/blog/2009/05/18/iphone-30-push-notification-testing-with-ap-news/ - There are also screenshots, etc, of the push notification settings, etc, for those of you unable to test it yourselves. I'm in the UK and got my first "push" alert about 45 minutes ago
You know, now that I think about this notification service I can see iPhones and Touches everywhere being inundated with notifications if you have a few subscriptions concurrently.
You can install it from your phone in iTunes. You dont have to do it on your mac!!! Have gotten 2 notifications so far. The sound is different when it comes up. I wish it had a close button like the text messages do but you have to look at it.
I'm not a fan of it either. But I believe there is a PNS app icon (smiley face) that you can use instead of alerts.
Some questions:
1. Can anyone check how long it took from the time the story was posted on AP's site 'til it reached the iPhone?
2. Is the only option right now the alert screen or can you use PNS (smiley face) app?
3. After some use, is it irritating or are you satisfied?
It may appear that way for that specific application, but other apps will have different ways of using Push.
But it is mindboggling to imagine the amount of horsepower that Apple's servers will need to handle the billions, if not trillions of Push notifications per day consistently and reliably. I'm glad that Apple is starting the testing of it.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3G (white): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A312g Safari/528.16)
No email here, either. Registered in Japan, but have a US account.
No email here, either. Registered in Japan, but have a US account.
3.0 will be a great update for the iPhone.
It will be a great update but I can't help but feel it should have been in 2.0. Hardware is all the same.
I live in the U.S. and I'm sure some of you will feel annoyed by this but Apple is a U.S. company, it makes sense to beta test things in the U.S. first. Some of you in the U.K and other places need to quit whining and shouting foul every time you don't get something at the same time at the U.S. The same thing happens to the U.S., every time a japanese company makes a new product, the U.S. is the last to get it. So get over it.
To bad I can't get this because BETA 5 STILL DOESN'T WANT TO INSTALL ON MYiPHONE!!!
I have tried so many times and still nothing. I'm still at Beta 4 and I'm scared that it will expire soon. AHH! Darn Error Code 1012
Had the same problem; It seems to only affect 1st gen iphones
The solution is: If you're currently on Beta 4 (if not, restore back to it), then simply use Option-Update, NOT Option-Restore to get to beta 5 (Option-Restore to b5 always fails for 1st gen iphones). That worked for me... Good luck...
I think the success of push notifications will depend on how much control apps give you over what notifications are pushed. Like earlier posters mentioned, no one wants every single AP report pushed to them, just certain sections. Likewise, I don't want every single ESPN report pushed to me, but I'd love if I could get a notification of the final score of every Blue Jays game. If apps don't give really granular control over what's pushed a lot of people are just going to turn the whole thing off cause it'll be too annoying.
I live in the U.S. and I'm sure some of you will feel annoyed by this but Apple is a U.S. company, it makes sense to beta test things in the U.S. first. Some of you in the U.K and other places need to quit whining and shouting foul every time you don't get something at the same time at the U.S. The same thing happens to the U.S., every time a japanese company makes a new product, the U.S. is the last to get it. So get over it.
I agree with this, but still find it weird that Apple emailed all devs with the code vs just US devs if they only want us US devs to test it.
So does anyone who is not in the US want to share their redeem code with me? I'm testing for a friend on 3.0, but as you have all said, only he can install the push notifications app and I'd like to check it out. PM me if you can help. THanks.