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[James Henstridge <james.henstridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12 September 2015 at 07:46, Gran PC <gran.pc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That makes a lot more sense. I didn't think Google did push notifications,
> I just assumed it was a server at Canonical polling my inbox and then
> sending push notifications as a temporary stopgap, like BlackBerry used to
> do.
>

That is correct.  The account-polld daemon is intended as an interim
solution to provide notifications for some commonly used services at a time
when we lack the market share to get Facebook, Twitter, etc to engineer
Ubuntu specific solutions.  If any of those services decided to add support
for Ubuntu push notifications, the corresponding code in account-polld
would likely be removed.

For any anything new, the push notification service is recommended.

James.