Is Mobile ME required for all of the push notifications that will be incorporated into 3.0? I don't have an account and would rather not, but I would like to take advantage of push notifications for IM services, facebook, etc.
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Mobile ME required for all push notifications?
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No. MobileMe is not the "cloud" for all push notifications. Apple has a separate server for that. So to answer your question, No MobileMe accounts are not necessary for Push Notifications.
If MobileMe is required for push notifications then this will be an EPIC FAIL on Apple's part IMHO.
No I'm pretty sure Beejive was only doing that as an interim solution to have Push-esque notifications on 2.2.1
It offered that as a way to have push messages by sending notifications to your push email account. You could also set it to send you text messages.
From what others have said, the option only shows up on 3.0 if the app supports it. So far nothing has been released that does.
Gmail push has nothing to do with push notifications really.
OP was talking about the Push Notification Server and apps using it.
Mail.app is an Apple application, so it doesn't need the push notification service.
It needs Google to support pushing to the phone.
Because Apple isn't accepting 3.0 apps to be submitted. Only 3.0 compatible apps.