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Originally Posted by Ken Case
We're providing notifications now in the best way possible to us. I certainly agree that calendar notifications which go through a separate server aren't ideal: what would be ideal would be for Apple to add date-based notifications on the device itself which had all the same options as push notifications (so we could specify different alert sounds and update the app icon, just like push notifications do). We've been requesting that feature for over a year (starting the day Apple announced push notifications), but Apple already had a lot on their plate for 3.0. (Hopefully they'll get to it for 4.0!)
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As a business investment (and to prevent you from sounding kind of foolish)..
I recommend you take a peek into the iPhone SETTINGS > NOTIFICATIONS
screen. (os 3.0)
Here you will see a list of all the applications installed in your iPhone that you can choose to allow to use "SOUNDS", "ALERTS", "BADGES" : )
Among the great GTD apps for iPhone that are currently
giving people Alerts without claiming they are "impossible" <love that word:
Appigo's ToDo application (a GTD app costing $9.99)
Remember The Milk (free, albeit kind of crappy)
ReQall (Voice activated calendar-> free, with subscription to web site)
Countless others (including some $1 games) are currently utlizing these INTERNAL ALERTS without using any server of any kind. It's great!
Just set a due time for an Action, choose to be alerted, and WHAMMO!!
A popup window and an alert sound, even if the iPhone is locked.
It's truly fantastic.
Please: either update your info, or cut the price on this thing, man.
It's already looking like one of those very expensive apps that says
certain things are "impossible" when in fact there are other apps being used by the people you're talking to, which have been using these
impossible features for a year now.
Have a good one.