Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For All Developers

Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by comex on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @01:30AM (#4776745)

iOS 6's Do Not Disturb feature has an option that lets the caller through if they call twice, which can achieve a similar effect, though not only for a specific group.

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Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by dredmorbius on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @05:25PM (#4785932)

Still wouldn't have helped for the recruiter who redialed me 6 times while I was attempting to read a 400-page PDF manual (incoming calls dump you out of the Adobe PDF reader and you've got to re-find your place in the document), while attempting to recover a melted down server in the colo (hadn't anticipated this, laptop was at the office).

Solution: tell the recruiting firm never, ever, ever to contact me again.

Second solution: take off and nuke Adobe from orbit.

Third solution: ePub for docs, people. It's multi-form-factor fungible, and the readers are vastly, vastly more functional than anything built for PDF.

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Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by comex on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @05:57PM (#4786068)

Fourth solution: use iBooks, it doesn't lose your page. :p

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Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by dredmorbius on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @12:21AM (#4812954)

Android?

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Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by comex on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @12:35AM (#4812984)

Oh... I assumed you were using iOS because you replied to my comment about iOS 6.

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Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by _djo_ on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @07:27AM (#4777586)

Do Not Disturb will be default let calls from your Favourites through first-time, only calls from other numbers will be silenced the first time.

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