Apple’s Push Notification Service was delayed multiple times after being announced – while no official reason was stated, carrier influence is very likely. After all, carriers live well off SMS…and the PNS is ideally suited for replacing just that.
A start-up called Ping Messaging has just started to test a service called Ping!, which it describes as follows:
iPhone-to-iPhone messaging made easy
Ping! uses push notifications to make messaging to iPhones quick and simple.
Also works with the iPod Touch.
From my personal point of view, a mass deployment of this service will probably cause headaches for Apple – I am not sure whether their PNS infrastructure is really able to handle the huge amount of traffic caused by thousands of IMs…
Either way, further information can be had at the URL below:
http://www.pingmessaging.com/Ping!/Ping!.html
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