> But what is the actual advantage? Efficient high throughput performance. That's why Apple went with the protocol they did in the first place. > What makes i

> But what is the actual advantage? Efficient high throughput performance. That's why Apple went with the protocol they did in the first place. > What makes it worth having to spend a day or two on a custom solution? It's not "custom", it's just a TCP connection. I quoted a day or two as a maximum estimate, assuming someone totally unfamiliar with the space, and possible integration issues with their existing infrastructure. I'd be surprised if Urban Airship was fully integrated any faster, since most of the heavy lifting will be in managing state and creating an internal push API, not in speaking TCP+SSL to Apple. [edit] Here's an implementation in about 20 lines of Python: http://blog.nuclearbunny.org/2009/05/11/connecting-to-apple-push-notification-services-using-python-twisted/ http://blog.nuclearbunny.org/2009/05/11/connecting-to-apple-...