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"Unfortunately, notifications were not addressed in iPhone OS 4.0."

OK, it was kind of passive aggressive of you (the author of the post) to just state this without any explanation backing it up, but I'll bite. Please do give us your rant about how local notifications (introduced in OS 4.0) in addition to the already existing push notifications does not address notifications.

Or maybe you just missed that part?

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Well, it wasn't my intention to be passive-aggressive. If anything, it seems active-aggressive :-)

The article is about the iPhone's user interface, not about the backend; local notifications have nothing to do with the user interface. And I simply assumed that everyone who has used an iPhone knows that the notification UI is very basic; you mostly get modal alert boxes, which are very easy to accidentally discard.

Thanks; that makes it clear. Yes that aspect is indeed not addressed.

I think he just meant that the method of showing notifications to the user hasn't changed.

More specifically, if you receive more than one notification, the former is pretty much lost. Your app icon is annotated with a number but you have no idea what happened if you have several icons already annotated.

Thanks, that's a good point.

I haven't been following the evolution iPhone OS releases during the beta phase, but isn't it possible that features are added (or removed) before the final release this summer?

It's possible, but Apple generally only adds small features after the initial introduction of a new system. I would be extremely surprised if something like notifications received a total overhaul for the final version of 4.0; I think they would have mentioned that.

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