Day 3: Light At The End Of The Tunnel July 23, 2008
Posted by Pip in General.Tags: aim, apps, hope, push
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I’ve done a bit of research, and apparently Apple intends to release some kind of push server in September.
The forum chatter suggests that this server may mimic background operation for selected apps such as AIM, pushing new messages to the program to enable alerts. The specific details are beyond me, but if this could be made possible for AIM and, say, Facebook this thing could almost be useful.
I understand Apple’s allergy to background apps. It is, after all, a mobile processor, and giving that kind of power to undescriminating developers risks security and lag issues. Still, for a communication device, background notifications are a necessity.
Day 2: AIM = FAIL July 23, 2008
Posted by Pip in General.Tags: aim, frustrations, typing
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Arghhh. Typing on this thing makes me want to weep, and then die. I’m going to trust this will get better with time.
Best to simply trust the auto-correct, though since my line of work has a lot of lingo, that can get very annoying at times.
Right now, though, my chief frustration is the inability to run my IM program In the background. I used to use JiveTalk on my BB a lot to chat with people on their computers. iPhone has an AIM app, but without notifications from the background it is completely pointless.
The whole charm of IM is the ability to put it on the backburner. To surf or check your email while you wait for a response. When you have to sit there staring at the bloody screen while you await a response, well… I just don’t like people enough to do that I suppose.
Also, so far Google Maps just quits if I try to open it from my home.
