Comments on: Tap News and News Fuse Consolidate Name-Brand News Providers into One App

By: Michael Alexander

Michael Alexander — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:39:16 +0000

We’ll find out in less than a month.

By: Gary LaPointe

Gary LaPointe — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:35:28 +0000

I know the OS will support it. The question is will the applications?

Will they bother to add something to update my news automatically?

If they don’t then it doesn’t matter. It’s that last sentence in my above post that I need them to do…

By: Michael Alexander

Michael Alexander — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:34:38 +0000

You’ll be happy to know that push notification will be available with the release of OS 3.0, just about the same time you get your new iPhone.

By: Gary LaPointe

Gary LaPointe — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:28:12 +0000

Hmm…. I really need them to cache the news for off-line reading on my iPod Touch. Some of those apps (especially NYT) have awesome off-line browsing.

What I really want is these news apps to automatically launch and update themselves at 6 am (or other times) when I know I have WiFi, I’d want this even if I had a phone. On my Palm 755p I have it launch Pocket Express at 6:30 in the morning on weekdays (9am on weekends) and it’d get the latest news, so even if I went on-line with it later it was SUPER-fast since it already had most of the new news all cached.

I’ll still want the same thing when I get my iPhone June 9th. Even if they had a service to send a “push” to tell it to update that’d be great. I’ll tell the NYT who I am and other stats, they supply a push to me several times a day and put in some targeted ads tied to my interest!