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Why must we Sync for Alerts?
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publicmale |
Hi -
There are two "to do" apps out there that are worthy of any mention. Yours and one other. Yet both require that there is a remote sync to a remote system with a username and logon in order for your iPhone app to do alerts. This doesn't make any sense. The iPhone does not require such an elaborate set up in order to do a popup. The programmer can just identify the current time via the localized phone clock, look at the set time for the task itself, and simply do a popup, and initiate a noise. There are thousands of apps which do popup notifications without any remote connection to any remote computer. Are you guys just trying to get people to enter their email info so you can have contact information for marketing purposes? The barebones iPhone calendar app even has this functionality. |
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Jake Toodledo Founder |
Until recently, with iOS 4.0, Apple did not allow local notifications, so the only way to do it (if you weren't Apple) was to sync with a server. Every developer did it this way. With iOS 4.0, it is now possible to have local alerts, so all developers are now rewriting their apps to use this instead, when appropriate. We plan to use local alerts in a future update.
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