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Originally Posted by jmorrison0722
Isn't this the sort of thing that iPhone notifications would be utilized for? Wasn't that added in version 3 of the iPhone OS? I'm sure I'm missing something but I know I have other apps that send up alerts.
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These are push notifications, and they have to be sent by a server. There is no mechanism for a non-Apple application to pop up an alert on the phone.
So OmniFocus allows you to publish to a remote calendar which will fire notifications to the iPhone. I don't believe these can work if the phone is off-network.
iPhone OS 4 allows for local notifications, so it should no longer be necessary to go through the same hoops. I haven't looked at the SDK so I don't know all the specifics, but I think without MobileMe you might not be able to get any notifications until you have a phone running iPhone OS 4.
There's nothing Omni can really do about the situation more than they've implemented, right now, I don't think.