Push, the movie, coming soon. Push, Apple’s notification system, not. - VentureBeat
Wed, Jan 28th, 2009
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At last year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) where Apple showed off the iPhone 3G and the App Store for the first time, the company noted that third-party applications would not be able to run in the background on the iPhone, but noted that a solution for that would be coming. That solution, called Push Notification, was due to launch in September, just a few months after the iPhone 3G and App Store’s July launch - but that never happened.
The detailed reasons why remain a mystery, but the official vague word out of Apple has been that it just wasn’t ready yet...
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