[drewr]

Anybody know why Apple has never added a notification system to OS X? I use and like growl, but it just seems like it should be OEM.

[e1ven]

I absolutely agree. They have a notification system infrastructure on iOS, and leaving that to a third party on OSX seems sloppy.

I imagine they would argue that per-app notifications (badge icons, etc) don't require system-level integration, but as I think they've learned from iOS5 apps, there's more you can do, and it's really nice to have this in one central place.

Maybe Lynx, or whatever they call 10.7, will have them.

[ugh]

Why? I think that notifications systems on the desktop are not useful and a distraction. Apple probably thinks similarly about them.