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by nerdjon 975 days ago
So you poll instead of getting a push?

Thats what my phone does. I could have seen the value of this 10-15 years ago but I don’t see the point now.

It isn’t like this would magically get rid of the delay either, their servers still have to poll before they can send you that notification.

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You can't realiably poll from a mobile phone. Your app may not be allowed to execute any code, let alone make a network request for hours, or maybe forever.