Tag Archives: notification center

OS X Mountain Lion and iOS 6: Feature Comparison

With the announcement of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and iOS 6, many noticed that the integration of the two that first become obvious in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion was being upped to a whole new level. iCloud has been much more deeply integrated throughout the operating systems, and OS X takes hints from iOS in many ways including notifications, Notification Center,…

iOS 6 syncs notifications between devices

Finally! When iMessage first came out on all iOS devices, I thought it was awesome that I could have a conversation with my friend on his iPhone from my iPad. That is, until I picked up my phone and discovered the entire conversation’s messages were marked as unread. It made no sense to me that my phone didn’t know I had already received those…

The problem with iOS notifications

Apple made great headway with notifications with the introduction of Notification Center and banners, which replaced the intrusive blue pop-ups. This is one of my favorite features in iOS 5, but after a few months with the operating system, it’s clear that Apple’s work on notifications is far from over. The problem now is not what notifications look like…