Slightly unrelated, but can anybody explain why private RSS feeds are not a more popular choice for "client push" when push lag of a couple of hours isn't a big deal? The "pill reminder" app made me think about how easy it would be to host a private RSS feed for each client that the backend updates on a schedule, and clients just... check the RSS feed for an update.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but it feels like you don't need some fancy realtime queue service for most push notifications, so why not use something that offloads the checks to the client?
Maybe I'm missing something here, but it feels like you don't need some fancy realtime queue service for most push notifications, so why not use something that offloads the checks to the client?