{"id":3572,"date":"2011-07-04T14:57:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T19:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2011-07-04T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T19:58:00","slug":"push-dropbox-async-and-indie-sockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/push-dropbox-async-and-indie-sockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Push, Dropbox, Async, and Indie Sockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2011\/07\/push__dropbox__async__and_indie_sockets.html\">Gus Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2011\/07\/push__dropbox__async__and_indie_sockets.html\">\n<p>What the heck can indie devs use as a persistent server connection, so that their syncing implementations can receive fast updates? I&rsquo;m not going to host a server for this purpose-that really isn&rsquo;t a core competency of mine, and I know it isn&rsquo;t for many other indie devs either. And as a customer, I wouldn&rsquo;t want to rely on a 3rd party server for this.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I have one big unanswered question about iCloud. Are developers allowed to use it if their app is not sold via the App Store? I asked this to multiple people at WWDC, and got conflicting answers. My educated guess is &ldquo;No,&rdquo; but I&rsquo;d be happy if someone could point me to documentation which confirms it either way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the answer is indeed &ldquo;No,&rdquo; that would make <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/ios-5-and-icloud\/\">dropping iDisk<\/a> even more of a loss of functionality. I suppose that will just send more people to Dropbox.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus Mueller: What the heck can indie devs use as a persistent server connection, so that their syncing implementations can receive fast updates? I&rsquo;m not going to host a server for this purpose-that really isn&rsquo;t a core competency of mine, and I know it isn&rsquo;t for many other indie devs either. And as a customer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}