Sparrow now supports Push Notification. SIKE!  

Two days ago, Sparrow pushed their v1.1 update. It brought a built-in browser, send-and-archive, and a dock badge. Along with the update, Sparrow gave us a status update on the “state of push.”

“Thanks to your amazing support, we feel confident that Apple might revise its position on the Push API. We’ll submit a version of Sparrow 1.2 including it. this might delay Sparrow 1.2 validation but we’re already working with some partners to include Push in future versions of Sparrow without needing Apple clearance. Push is coming. With or without Apple.”

I was ecstatic. “As soon as Sparrow supports push,” I thought, “I’ll bury Apple’s mail.app in a folder on the last page.”

Well, according to iDB, YouTube’s Duncan33303 has reported that push notifications have been working on his iPhone since he updated to v1.1. Others have noted the same thing. Seems like they just want attention.

I reached out to founder, Dom Leca (who I interviewed a while back), and designer Jean-Marc Denis (same story). However, I think they’re probably having dinner right now. It’s, after all, 9pm their time (la Paris).

HOWEVER, co-founder Dinh Viêt Hoà was wide awake to see this crap published. After we had a brief DM conversation on Twitter, I understood. He, to abbreviate, says it’s false. Case closed.

When you show the home screen while Sparrow was syncing, it will show notifications about the emails it just fetched. It won’t fetch any further email until you relaunch the app.

In other words, it’s local. Wait for v1.2 people.