Sunday, July 18, 2010

The iPhone's notification problem…

In the interest of setting expectations for this blog, I thought I'd post something negative about the iPhone: Notifications.

They're a disaster. There's no way to review notifications once they've been acknowledged, and they tend to stack up- especially since push notifications were added to iOS. I had been hoping that Apple would do something about notifications in iOS 4, but no such luck, so far.

One of the things about being so far ahead of most of the industry is having the flexibility to let certain things slide for a while- sort of like copy/paste being MIA for two years, until iOS 3. But Apple really needs to do something about notifications. The situation will only get worse with the addition of local notifications- one of the seven new multitasking services in iOS 4. This is where even an Apple fanboy can be grateful for Android, and the fire it's lighting under Apple- at least in some areas...

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