Notifications on the iPhone, or the lack there-of, and what I did about it…
Dear Apple: Are you serious? After 4 major versions of your mobile operating system I STILL can’t set different alert profiles for different email accounts?
In my case I want certain email accounts I have setup to provide different feedback. See, I get a lot of email, most of it is just informative messages coming from automated systems that don’t necessarily require a timely response while others are alerts that I want to be informed of immediately. This seems like such a trivial thing, yet has a huge impact on my workflow productivity.
When Apple first released the 3G I left my Blackberry Curve behind and joined the masses in coming to iPhone. After 8 months I asserted that the iPhone was not a productivity device and returned to Blackberry and the comfort of a physical keyboard and a multitude of configuration options where I happily remained until this week when my BES crashed and I had enough of fighting with it.
I considered going to an Android device, but recently FatBox has started building iPhone apps and while my iPod Touch and the simulator have done me well during this first development cycle it really behoves me to have an iPhone now that we’re getting REALLY close to releasing our first app into the App store (stay tuned for a release announcement that should happen in the next couple weeks!).
I digress. The point is here I am with my shiny new iPhone 4 facing the same problems I was facing back with my 3G. However, this time it’s a little different. This time I can do something about it, so I did…
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