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

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.