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Please son, where do you think Rich worked before Palm? That's right, he worked at Apple. Most of Palm's webOS team was hired away from Apple. Now that Palm is no longer, Apple is hiring them back. So **** and enjoy probing yourself with your Pre.

Hired back from Palm after they did all this work for Palm. Now they're bringing their ideas they designed while at Palm (which Palm probably has patents on) and are giving Apple ideas that they developed for Palm. But when Palm hired Apple employees like that, people were whining about it.

And I don't have a Pre. Try again.
 
If Palm had taken one of Apple's iPhone employees, people here would be screaming bloody murder.

Oh, you say Palm has taken some of Apple's engineers? Well, let's see, there's bound to be a thread about that around here somewhere....oh, here it is! And judging by the first few posts, it looks like some people here were screaming about it. So I'll just say it:

These clowns want to be like Palm. They can't come up with their own ideas, so they'll hire the people that gave Palm theirs. Apple is definitely grasping at straws and doing everything they can to hire former Palm employees. They still have much ground to make up to catch the Pre; scooping up the crumbs or leftovers doesn't say much for their innovation and creativity involving the iPhone, b/c the bottom line is "they are still trying to emulate the Pre." Still nothing to compete with Palm's notification system. They are still dependent on Palm employees to do everything the Pre can do. Apple should be renamed Palm II. Let the war begin. Let's go Palm! The only thing I want to know is that, how much are they paying him to walk away from Palm. Palm - BUY APPLE. Jeez..... if they want to be so much like Palm, maybe they just want to be part of Palm.

Works for me. My Treos were very nice devices in their time. The Pre is/was a very nice concept indeed, they just didn't execute (read: hype and market) as effectively as did Apple.

Bring it on.:D
 
We only get a single point release per year (x.1) so I kind of doubt that will add any over haul to the notifications with an updates. Has apple extended iOS in a point release or just patch some bugs? I could be wrong but the only updates have been bug fixes.

3.1 added customizable home screens in iTunes 9, new camera APIs, notifications for Calendar alerts, video copy/paste, fast forward/rewind using the headphones, and about a hundred other things.

Check the version history here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_OS_version_history
 
Hired back from Palm after they did all this work for Palm. Now they're bringing their ideas they designed while at Palm (which Palm probably has patents on) and are giving Apple ideas that they developed for Palm. But when Palm hired Apple employees like that, people were whining about it.

And I don't have a Pre. Try again.

Do you honestly think they are just going to copy what Palm did?
 
I stand corrected sorry for the mis-information :)

They do still only give us one .x update per year though :(

Well, we only got one for 3.0, but I believe 2.0 had 2.1 and 2.2.

I still don't personally think that we'll see a new system until 5.0, but I'm not totally ruling it out.
 
Yeah looks like improved notification will be a killer feature in iOS 5. Maybe Apple will finally increase the screen size to accommodate it.
 
So, they had to hire some guru to grasp the concept of "popups are annoying"?
 
What's the jb app that gives you better notifications?

Meh, there really isn't a great one, IMO. There's GriP (http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/wiki/GriP), but it hasn't been updated in forever, and I found it's trade-offs to be off-putting enough to not really consider it any better than Apple's implementation. Then there's a SBSettings add-on that works with GriP to provide a sort of pull-down/window shade notifications list, but that was in some serious alpha stage and I never really got it working well.
 
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