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Apple Has Hired MobileNotifier Developer Peter Hajas
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You know the reason I want a notifications screen?
Cause sometimes I don't want to go there right away and if I procrastinate I don't remember every single app that sent me a notification. Plus if I get multiple notifications I can only pick one to go to and pay attention to and hope to remember the rest. I would like a list of notifications including which ones I haven't opened the app to since the notification as a reminder of which notifications I haven't paid attention to yet.
That way I don't have to try to sit there and remember to pay attention to some app and I can put my full focus on what I'm doing at the moment knowing I can just go to the notifications screen later and be reminded of what new things I need to pay attention to.
I'd like the notification screen so I can *ignore* a notification at the moment and not worry that I'll forget about it when I want to go and check what's new later on.
And this is from some one who has recently asked why people dislike the notifications as it is right now (I have some pet peeves but never really thought of it as bad enough to be thinking it had to be fixed. But... every handheld I've had had some similar way of doing notifications so I haven't known much different). Even though I don't have much issue with notifications even I've noticed the lack of that and can fully agree that it is better to at least have a screen you can go to to see a history of notifications. It's a small pet peeve of mine that I think would be a vast improvement.
Plus I hate having to keep going through pop up screens when you have multiple notifications, it would be nice if it was all in one pop up rather than them layering over each other so you have to go through a stack of them.
I will say in general I do like the notifications popping up over what I'm doing (maybe in a less intrusive way that would be fine too, kinda like how facebook does it honestly. I like how the guy who is the focus of this article does it with the exception that I'd want the notifications to actually pause what I'm doing cause when playing a game I don't like that it would pop up and my game would still go and not be paused... that could get very annoying as it could easily mess me up in the game doing that).
One word. "Yuck".
That reminds me of Winmo 6.5. I would not want anything like that in iOS 5. Anyone who wants that can jailbreak if they want that kind of clutter.
Having too much personal info on a lock screen for example kind of defeats the purpose of a lock screen which is to protect your privacy.
A home screen, IMO, is for launching into apps that you use most and having personal info on it displayed also kind of risks your privacy. I want to be able to hand someone my iPhone so they can make a call without giving them direct access to information about my personal life on the home screen.
You can accomplish the same thing with a PIM app that pulls in information about emails and calendars and having that app open when you lock your phone. Then it will be front and centre when you unlock your phone.
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dude u got no idea, when ur running in app it doesnt get in the way at all, just a little bar pops up at the top of the screen showing that u got something new, but it doesnt pause or anything what ur currently doing and it goes away by itself after a few seconds
Dunno about that one. Definitely a step in a better direction though.
I tell you what, the lock screen is what is on my radar for this latest update. Check out lockscreeninfo on Cydia.
I tell you what, the lock screen is what is on my radar for this latest update. Check out lockscreeninfo on Cydia.
As long as we continue to see "nn" apps hosting malware removed from Android Marketplace, I highly doubt it.
Control is still very much needed, and iOS/mac os x malware is on the rise.
Yes, a little bar pops up and gets in the way of part of the screen, having used it when my phone was jail broken, I can happily say it's pretty much as annoying as the modal notifications, except iT doesn't pause app/game when content is obscured.
Ummm... nothing wrong with the InHouse developer other than being maybe a bit thinly spread. Did does sound like JB community is proving a good training ground.
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well ... how else is a "notification" system supposed to inform u when ur running an app?
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well ... how else is a "notification" system supposed to inform u when ur running an app?
I have next to no interest in defending Apple or maintaining some image of them. They're a big corporate entity that wants my money. No delusions there.
But you're missing the forest for the trees. Yes, Apple pursued the DMCA route and various other claims of copyright infringement against jailbreaking but that doesn't discount the idea that all of those avenues were pursued more out of a desire to establish a legal boundary where they are not liable for users rendering their devices unusable. That's not so far-fetched. When you read about what Apple was doing, the EULA and their concerns about users damaging the product were part of all that. It struck me as legal CYA, and only an attack on jailbreaking insofar as that activity might come back around to bite Apple financially. If your jailbreaking users eff their iPhones up royally, do they have a right to file class action lawsuits against you when the guy at the genius bar refuses to help? No... not if you've clearly established the legal boundaries, not if you've established that the terms of your EULA can stand.
And you're right. They can't sue those jailbreaking sites for jailbreaking per se but who knows what else might be going on with some of those sites. Surely, not everything going on at every jailbreaking site is 100% legal and Apple could go after those if they chose. And there's a lot they could have done by now with hardware and software updates that would discourage jailbreaking.
I stand by my theory. Apple doesn't give a rip about jailbreaking as long as it's clear it can't harm them financially.
They had years prior to the LoC exceptions were made to sue jailbreakers and never did. They might not like them much, but they also don't seem to really care.
Take a look at the latest update to MobileNotifer that came out a couple week ago. Much better than the version shown in the video.
Notifications now "push down" the rest of your screen, so nothing is obstructed with a slimmer bar (compared to the video) at the top with the notification. It disappears after 3-4 seconds if you do not open or dismiss it.
Notifications now "push down" the rest of your screen, so nothing is obstructed with a slimmer bar (compared to the video) at the top with the notification. It disappears after 3-4 seconds if you do not open or dismiss it.
That's what we've been trying to tell people but no one is reading the thread before posting and arn still hasn't updated the video to reflect what is current.
Haven't found what yet?
For those of you asking, the new video of the updated notifier is here...
http://www.jailbreakmovies.com/2011/05/29/mobilenotifier-updated-with-quick-reply-functions-video-inside/
http://www.jailbreakmovies.com/2011/05/29/mobilenotifier-updated-with-quick-reply-functions-video-inside/
Being a notified pro user I much prefer it to mobilenotifier (yes the lastest beta). Scrolling statusbar notifications plus lockinfo infoshade for a notifications window comes close to android. Sadly it's not compatible with bitesms quick reply and doesn't seem like the dev will incorporate it any time soon. This is why I use the infoshade over the notified shade: so tapping sms notifications open bitesms quick reply. But it'd be nice if I could tap the notification directly for this function.
As for the hiring, it's nice someone from the JB community is catching apple' attention. But like others have mentioned:
1) hopefully this doesn't mean there isn't a notifications system out yet for ios5
2) the mobilenotifier system isn't what we will see because personally find it clunky. You'd think the webos guy would already have designed something just as good if not better by now (I personally love webos notifications). I guess we'll know tomorrow...
As for the hiring, it's nice someone from the JB community is catching apple' attention. But like others have mentioned:
1) hopefully this doesn't mean there isn't a notifications system out yet for ios5
2) the mobilenotifier system isn't what we will see because personally find it clunky. You'd think the webos guy would already have designed something just as good if not better by now (I personally love webos notifications). I guess we'll know tomorrow...