Apple, please fix your software. For iOS 5.

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Here's an article today from TechCrunch also complaining about the notification system, and showing a nice solution.
I hope Apple does something similar if not the same to this system.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/07/iphone-notification-system/

Bad idea,

The beauty of Android notifications is that the pull down notification bar is visible in almost all applications, so wherever you are, you can just pull down the menu and switch to the notifying application.

Imagine you're driving and using a GPS app, a notification appears but you are busy so after 5 seconds it vanishes, Hickman's method requires you push "Home" button, go back to the springboard and slide probably several pages to check notifications, with Android you can just pull down the status bar while being in the GSP application and either read the notification or directly switch to the notifying application without having to go to the homescreen.

Android notification is much better, in fact it's the best notification implementation and the feature I like the most about Android.

 

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Bad idea,

The beauty of Android notifications is that the pull down notification bar is visible in almost all applications, so wherever you are, you can just pull down the menu and switch to the notifying application.

Imagine you're driving and using a GPS app, a notification appears but you are busy so after 5 seconds it vanishes, Hickman's method requires you push "Home" button, go back to the springboard and slide probably several pages to check notifications, with Android you can just pull down the status bar while being in the GSP application and either read the notification or directly switch to the notifying application without having to go to the homescreen.

Android notification is much better, in fact it's the best notification implementation and the feature I like the most about Android.

I didn't even think about that, thanks.
Regardless i agree with you, Android notification is the best so far, and i really hope to see a killer for iOS 5.

 

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I think iOS is a great OS, and it works excellently on my iPhone 4. Of course there's certainly things that need to be improved like the notifications and I'd like to see a user file area to make file management easier. I've tried Android and ultimately I don't like it, I love the polished, smooth, and consistent iOS over the unpolished "customizable" Android. I will never go back to Android after experiencing the iPhone 4.