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What about Push? Can't anything be done with it? Like Mail.app

• glhaynes 16y ago
  Push Notifications have a very small payload on iOS; besides, the app doesn't get "woken up" and allowed to run to process the payload until it's switched to.
  • stcredzero 16y ago
    Right. The best they can do is to respond to the push notifications when the user next runs their app. So Instapaper could present the possible downloads in a dialog, then when the user agrees, use Task Completion to download them in the background. This might be workable, and would often be very useful, though less convenient than a true background fetch.
    • glhaynes 16y ago
      Yeah. Mr. Arment's proposed solution sounds pretty good to me, and seems to fit the "spirit" of the existing multitasking APIs.