RIM gives devs a new API for more push content in apps
Oh hello, WES week! This is already shaping up to be one hell of a nice week for BlackBerry users. Not only did RIM launch BES 5.0 this morning, but it also announced that BlackBerry developers who are members of the BlackBerry Alliance Program now have access to a new API intended to serve even more push content to end-users. In a nut shell, devs who utilize the new API will be able to create or update existing apps so that they push new content to users as soon as it becomes available. This basically negates the need for manual or timed polling. Imagine, for example, sitting in a boring meeting when your BlackBerry’s status indicator lights up. Your favorite sports app informs you Roy Halladay has just struck out David Ortiz with the bases loaded to clinch the AL East mere moments after it happens. With the new push API, your BlackBerry will be able to do this in the near future — and that’s a good thing.
So day I guess the Iphone do this as well. NOt!!!!!!!!!!!!!
loving the example! go jays! Cant wait!
LOL @ the Blue Jays winning the East… You definitely got the ‘Papi striking out with the bases loaded’ part right though.
Obviously he is a smart Yankees fan….he ALREADY knows that team won’t be in the running for the AL East come September!!!!
You think it has to do with the Fung-shui of the new stadium. 22-4 Loss, WTF is this?
sox will win the division.. ur rite about papi strikin out tho lol
Let me see what these apple fanboys have to say bout this.
Um… You’ve obviously missed the iPhone 3.0 memo. This is another case of RIM going ‘me too!’.
Whadasurprise.
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Uh…RIMs push service destroys anything Apple will come out with, get real.
who cares who implements it first. Just DO IT. I hope they all elevate the bar to the point of merely choosing the layout of your device and the style of the UI.. NOT the functionality. May the envelope be pushed, stuffed, licked, stamped, mailed and fvckin delivered already.
Why would Halladay still be in the game in the bottom of the 9th with the bases loaded? Downs would be called in after the first runner got on base… just sayin…
well, what good would it do when the status-indicator lights up 30 times a game only to notify us how many times A-Rod struck out….just an observation.
this is flat out great. you can see how PUSH is superior over flashy products like the I-mania syndrome.
until RIM’s effort is squarely at “the” idea that made them to where they are today, they will reign for a long time. lets face it guys, no company can do it all. if you stick to your thing then its a success.
No, no, no, no!
I say, Independence Day weekend the Yankees sweep the Blue Jays to take AL East and they don’t look back.
Watch and learn.
PS: RIM rocks, Sox suck.