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> "Push Fixer is a premium service. The generation of unique sets for push notification is power and time consuming. The price for a set is really cheap and it

by gergles 12y ago

> "Push Fixer is a premium service. The generation of unique sets for push notification is power and time consuming. The price for a set is really cheap and it allow us to continue offering this service." what. This firmware breaks your existing push support then demands a fee ($1, but still.) to restore it because, literally, "generating certs is hard". Really?

goatforce5 12y ago
Imagine that instead of the code being free and the Push Fixer service costing a dollar that the code costs $1 and the Push Fixer service is included in the cost. Feel better?
- sp332 12y ago
  Right, it breaks push "for free".
tacotime 12y ago
I think it's less about generating a certificate and more about managing and serving push notifications which assumedly takes resources to serve and manage. Not to mention the cost of setting up the servers in the first place. They have to make money somewhere, right? I mean you can't expect this much work for a pure passion project can you? Honestly I'm more concerned that it's so damn cheap. It's hard for me to believe that a $1 fee on software that only works with devices >6 years old is much of an economic incentive for a project of this scope. It becomes a lot easier to believe when you look at their sourceforge download stats and realize that they've been at this for years now and they have some pretty amazing numbers on their side: http://sourceforge.net/projects/whited00r/files/stats/timeline?dates=2012-09-01+to+2014-09-16 http://sourceforge.net/projects/whited00r/files/stats/timeli... We all know that Apple is obviously under-serving older generations of devices in the interest of getting people to buy the new one. This project appears to be proof that there is a sizable segment of the market that still cares about their 6+ year old Apple devices.

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> "Push Fixer is a premium service. The generation of unique sets for push notification is power and time consuming. The price for a set is really cheap and it

by gergles 12y ago

goatforce5 12y ago
Imagine that instead of the code being free and the Push Fixer service costing a dollar that the code costs $1 and the Push Fixer service is included in the cost. Feel better?
- sp332 12y ago
  Right, it breaks push "for free".
tacotime 12y ago
I think it's less about generating a certificate and more about managing and serving push notifications which assumedly takes resources to serve and manage. Not to mention the cost of setting up the servers in the first place. They have to make money somewhere, right? I mean you can't expect this much work for a pure passion project can you? Honestly I'm more concerned that it's so damn cheap. It's hard for me to believe that a $1 fee on software that only works with devices >6 years old is much of an economic incentive for a project of this scope. It becomes a lot easier to believe when you look at their sourceforge download stats and realize that they've been at this for years now and they have some pretty amazing numbers on their side: http://sourceforge.net/projects/whited00r/files/stats/timeline?dates=2012-09-01+to+2014-09-16 http://sourceforge.net/projects/whited00r/files/stats/timeli... We all know that Apple is obviously under-serving older generations of devices in the interest of getting people to buy the new one. This project appears to be proof that there is a sizable segment of the market that still cares about their 6+ year old Apple devices.