Comments on: Push Alerts for iPhone App Updates – Good Idea?

By: patrickj

patrickj — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:24:29 +0000

In reply to Daniel Sullivan. I'm very sensitive about push alerts as well. Within one week is good from a dev's perspective I guess, but thinking as a user, say one awaiting a crucial bug fix update, I'd rather know about it straight away. :)

By: Daniel Sullivan

Daniel Sullivan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:47:36 +0000

I don’t think so, but I’m probably more sensitive to push notifications than others might be. Maybe badge notification, where you get a red 1 or something similar by the app icon. Also, not sure it’s necessary. From personal experience, I launched my App, Appswell in middle of October, and we did our first update about 2 months later, and I saw about 80% of our audience update within one week.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:19:15 +0000

Agree on both points – and it should of course allow for selection / de-selection of apps that will send these alerts.

By: Jim Reppond

Jim Reppond — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:02:33 +0000

It should be a preference choice, perhaps at the App Store level. Something like, “Send Application Update Alerts” “On / Off”

The App Store already has a function that adds a little red circle with the number of updates available (just like phone messages, email, etc.) For many people that might be enough. Constant pop-up alerts can be annoying and people should always have a way to opt-out of them if they want, IMO.