MG Siegler:
The issue I’m noticing now is that if you have too many apps with Push Notifications turned on, the whole system becomes a lot less useful. You see, Push Notifications are basically Apple’s way to get around allowing third-party apps to run in the background of the iPhone. So apps can now send these push messages to your phone to let you know if there’s some kind of message or update that you should open an app for. But if you have a lot of push messages coming in, I’m finding that you either have to pull out your phone every couple minutes, or risk still missing notifications that you probably want to see.
The notification boxes aren’t meant to signal multiple alerts. It’s a one-at-a-time system, meaning that when someone has many apps that use the framework, notifications are lost in the flood. Without a proper re-tooling of the alert display (something I’m not sure Apple’s keen on doing), the main purpose of push notifications becomes useless.