Number of Push-enabled apps and the iPhone performance?

[daihard]

Hi.

I am wondering whether or not the performance of the iPhone will decrease as you keep adding applications that use the Push notifications? I currently have only two push-enabled apps on my 3GS, but there are a few that I'd love to add. At the same time, I don't want to slow down the OS performance.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

TIA!

 

[MadGoat]

Hi.

I am wondering whether or not the performance of the iPhone will decrease as you keep adding applications that use the Push notifications? I currently have only two push-enabled apps on my 3GS, but there are a few that I'd love to add. At the same time, I don't want to slow down the OS performance.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

TIA!

you could have 100 push enabled apps and receive 100 messages total, or 1 push app and receive 100 messages total, you will see the same performance.

It just depends on how many times you get buzzed, the apps themselves don't keep a connection to the server and aren't polling it constantly.

there's one connection from the iPhone OS to a central server which takes care of doing all the polling and work behind the scenes.

 

[kdarling]

there's one connection from the iPhone OS to a central server which takes care of doing all the polling and work behind the scenes.

Slight correction: the Apple push servers don't poll. They're passive.

The external application servers have to send notifications to the Apple servers, for Apple to forward to your phone.

 

[daihard]

Thanks, MadGoat and kdarling.

That's great news. I won't have to worry about slowing down my iPhone by adding more push-enabled apps. 🙂