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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Can someone explain what push is? Coles notes version
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To be clear, all push means is the opposite of pull. Literally.
When you go to a website, you pull data down. When you check your email, you pull data down. When your email client automatically checks your email for you, every 10 minutes, it still just pulls data down.
When an email server sends email to you, without any interaction on your part (or your email client's part), it's pushing data to you. When a web server automatically sends you an updated data stream, it's pushing it's data to you.
Putting email and the web aside for a minute...
In the realm of the iPhone, there is a background service built into the firmware (read: OS), that enables applications to register with their own push servers. This means that if you have a sports score tracker running, it can be installed in a way that allows it to receive "realtime" pushed score updates, without you having to tell it to update.
This means that, you're sitting in a movie theater with your girlfriend... watching Sisterhood of the Traveling Unmatched Socks, during Game 7 of the Sharks and Flames...
Instead of having to refresh the score every time you want an update, you can just sit there and bask in all the movie's Ya-Ya glory, knowing that within seconds of someone scoring a goal, you'll get a realtime update pushed to your phone.
That's what they're disabling. Not push email, they're killing pushed (3rd party) application data.