Comments on: RIM’s Blackberry “push” email to be available on Moto MPx, MPX220 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2004/07/rims-blackberry-push-email-to-be-available-on-moto-mpx-mpx220/ Edge Case, Community Builder, Tinkerer, and Teacher Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:59:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: What's_The_Fuss http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2004/07/rims-blackberry-push-email-to-be-available-on-moto-mpx-mpx220/#comment-15 What's_The_Fuss Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2004/07/rims-blackberry-push-email-to-be-available-on-moto-mpx-mpx220/#comment-15 I am seriously questioning what's the fuss with this RIM's idea of "push" technology. It brings nothing significantly more than asking the coporate customers to have high TCO for their ISP to maintain the middlewares involved with this technology.<BR/><BR/>What's so wrong with the traditional way of setting your client email programme to poll for new mails on the server every 1 second if you like. <BR/><BR/>What's the big hurry, you can't wait another minute for that email to automatically come while you sit there and stare at your mobile device ? If you're in such a hurry at all and you're expecting something to come just that second the sender hits 'send' button, wouldn't you the receiver be smart enough to keep click on recieve button on your email client to poll the server?<BR/><BR/>This is when people like RIM are trying to act smart by implementing new technologies and components but achieve nothing significant in the way the end user appreciates the functionality.<BR/><BR/>Ok , you put it a middleware, you tie in box with the WWAN ISP, you make good friends with them. Hey great to see you're able to come up with a new way to make friends outside your cubicle, for once in your lives. I am seriously questioning what’s the fuss with this RIM’s idea of “push” technology. It brings nothing significantly more than asking the coporate customers to have high TCO for their ISP to maintain the middlewares involved with this technology.

What’s so wrong with the traditional way of setting your client email programme to poll for new mails on the server every 1 second if you like.

What’s the big hurry, you can’t wait another minute for that email to automatically come while you sit there and stare at your mobile device ? If you’re in such a hurry at all and you’re expecting something to come just that second the sender hits ’send’ button, wouldn’t you the receiver be smart enough to keep click on recieve button on your email client to poll the server?

This is when people like RIM are trying to act smart by implementing new technologies and components but achieve nothing significant in the way the end user appreciates the functionality.

Ok , you put it a middleware, you tie in box with the WWAN ISP, you make good friends with them. Hey great to see you’re able to come up with a new way to make friends outside your cubicle, for once in your lives.

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