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The whole push notification issue needs to be seen in context though even though most people consider it in a rather myopic and self-centered manner. Push notif
by wahsd 12y ago
The whole push notification issue needs to be seen in context though even though most people consider it in a rather myopic and self-centered manner. Push notifications, in and of themselves are not all that bad of a thing; but push notifications sent by all the apps and all the services without any sort of coordination is bad for all of the apps because people tune them out or turn them off except for the most important ones like email, messages, calls.
I think the OS that can solve the mental load question regarding notifications will make significant headway. I'm not sure what the answer totally looks like, but it seems to be it really needs to be an OS managed service. I would love to see it even utilize behavioral patterns, but I think there is still much work to be done for that to be useful, but I think Apple and Microsoft could be heading that way.
- untog 12y agoA system whereby apps/sites post metadata about the items awaiting a user rather than specific notifications is an interesting idea. But I wouldn't want to be the one to formalise that system and try to encompass every interaction users have with their data online.
- wahsd 12y agoIt's definitely complicated, which is probably why no one has wanted to address it. People in tech nowadays, because money is just sloshing around and there are plenty of low hanging fruit to pluck, are largely not interested in solving difficult problems. I don't blame them, it's just an effect of the current system.