If Begley can get himself unmarried from the need for push notifications, this could totally be a mobile web app running on any smart phone with a decent browser. And as someone else suggested, notifications could be tweets or emails. I'm curious as to what he believes the value-add of push notifications are (as opposed to having the freshest data retrieved and live updates while the app is running).
That wouldn't work at all. You'd have to be sitting there with your phone unlocked, in view of that page on Safari, watching it until your battery died (which would happen quickly).
I suppose that wouldn't work at all if you need immediate updates of drone attacks (so that you can respond in some way?) I'm questioning the need for push notifications rather than trying to propose an exact equivalent.
I suppose the point of it is that your phone buzzes when a drone strikes. That‘s the dramaturgy of it. A buzzing phone tells you: something has happened. But this time it’s not your alarm clock, or your friend texting: it’s knowing that a bom has dropped. This then gives an eerie sense of awareness of/relation to something that normally is far away and abstract.
(of course, the strike was not really that instant, but that at least is the suggestion of it, by linking it to the instantaneous feeling push notifications).
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If Begley can get himself unmarried from the need for push notifications, this could totally be a mobile web app running on any smart phone with a decent browser. And as someone else suggested, notifications could be tweets or emails. I'm curious as to what he believes the value-add of push notifications are (as opposed to having the freshest data retrieved and live updates while the app is running).
That wouldn't work at all. You'd have to be sitting there with your phone unlocked, in view of that page on Safari, watching it until your battery died (which would happen quickly).
I suppose that wouldn't work at all if you need immediate updates of drone attacks (so that you can respond in some way?) I'm questioning the need for push notifications rather than trying to propose an exact equivalent.
I suppose the point of it is that your phone buzzes when a drone strikes. That‘s the dramaturgy of it. A buzzing phone tells you: something has happened. But this time it’s not your alarm clock, or your friend texting: it’s knowing that a bom has dropped. This then gives an eerie sense of awareness of/relation to something that normally is far away and abstract.
(of course, the strike was not really that instant, but that at least is the suggestion of it, by linking it to the instantaneous feeling push notifications).
My god!! That's not only offensive, it's disturbing! Confronting! Mildly unsettling, even! Can't they just hurl birds at pigs, like everybody else?