Comments on: Apple Recruiting Developers to Beta Test Push Notification

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:24:30 +0000

Two questions:

Will Apple pay for tests? i.e. some discounts in the developer program fees would be nice.
Whatever happened to good ole QA department?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:13:31 +0000

For anyone wanting to get it outside the UK etc just create a US itunes account which is fairly easy if you do a quick google search, and it also syncs to your iPhone too whilst keeping the original UK authorized apps.

By: frog

frog — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:52:33 +0000

Australia here, got the email – can’t get the app … lol

By: areyouserious

areyouserious — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:34:19 +0000

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:22:13 +0000

Yeah, I got a code… entered it in the App store and it said US only.

By: remy

remy — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:01:09 +0000

well…not all us devs are getting any emails from apple…

By: Al

Al — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:23:16 +0000

You’re exactly right Justin. Apple is only testing their service. They are using American developers and iPhone simply because there are more American developers. Whether they test it in English, Chinese, Spanish or whatever is irrelevant, they are merely testing the service. If you aren’t helping out with this test, the only thing you are missing out on are sample pushes from the AP app, who cares!

By: Justin (dizzy)

Justin (dizzy) — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:57:15 +0000

Just read on MR forums that UK devs were sent the email, but couldn’t use the code. That’s pretty silly, why send the email to all devs if they only want to test in US now?

By: Justin (dizzy)

Justin (dizzy) — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:37:08 +0000

Two questions for non-US devs… 1) Did you get the email with the app download code? 2) If so, you can’t just select US to test it?

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:31:59 +0000

@Justin why let people know about it that can’t test it if it’s only available for Americans… they don’t even love us Canadians

By: Justin (dizzy)

Justin (dizzy) — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:16:21 +0000

@Brendan Why would you be annoyed? It’s a pre-release app that Apple is using it to stress test it’s push servers and Apple is a US based company. Makes perfect sense to me.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:15:38 +0000

Ps. Codes are locked to your iTunes account. No luck KORG

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:14:31 +0000

Hopefully you are right!

By: KORG

KORG — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:22:41 +0000

I'm pretty sure that they'll start in here then move to other countries...

Anyone that can't use it can let me test it:)

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:21:01 +0000

I’m pretty annoyed. Surely they have to test it in other countries other than America!!

By: KORG

KORG — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:20:01 +0000

Where can I get that code?

I have iPhone 3.0 beat 5.

Do developers get one code only?

I would like to test it out...thanks

any links would be cool!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:13:18 +0000

I got this email only to be disappointed as its not available in the UK.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:49:04 +0000

Does this work in the UK iTunes account?

By: Moe

Moe — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:29:58 +0000

It is good now. But it was a disaster when it launched. So, the point here is that push notifications works just as good as Mobile me does now, just out of the gate!

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:57:47 +0000

I love my Mobile Me service, if the push is just as good as that, I’ll be extremely happy.