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well what about them? an oversaturated channel that inevitably will become useless. Maybe users should be trained to seek the information they want instead of a
by jdrc 5y ago
well what about them? an oversaturated channel that inevitably will become useless. Maybe users should be trained to seek the information they want instead of a device telling them what to think. It's heathier.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoEver heard of messaging apps? The kind you want to beep when somebody sends you a message? Currently you have 2 ways of providing this to your users: run the app in the background, maintaining a persistent connection to the server, or via push notifications, where an app is woken from disabled state and displays a message. And background processes are killed off on iOS in less than 15 seconds (the documentation states 30 seconds, but we've never seen it in practice). That leaves push notifications the only choice.
- tomjen3 5y agoMessaging apps are a good example of when not to do notifications. Why should my day be interrupted because some random contact sends me some information? I don’t have email set to interrupt me, why should chat?
- emptyparadise 5y agoBecause there are people you care about and to hear from.
- toast0 5y agoPush notifications don't mean only user visible notifications (or certainly don't mean a sound or haptic notification is required). It's nice for the app to get notified so it can download the message, so it's ready when you next want to look at messages. Of course, worst of both is interruption notifications where you see part of the message, tap to read the whole thing and then get to wait for the thing to load.
- cma 5y agoNotifications can be used for more than an interrupting news feed.