Apple Thoughts: Where Did Push Notifications Go?

"As the end of January 2009 draws near, there’s still no sign of push notifications. Reports at the end of September said that all support for the system was pulled from beta versions of the iPhone Software Development Kit for the then-forthcoming iPhone 2.1 update. So what happened? We put in a call to Apple to find out the reason why, but unless you’re new to this whole scene you won’t exactly be flabbergasted to hear that the company was about as communicative as your average sullen teenager."

I have a feeling Push Notifications are dead and buried and that Apple is working on a way to just enable multitasking properly and efficiently, which is why we haven't heard anything about Push Notifications in months. Do I have anything to base that on? Not really. It's more or less just a hunch based on the sudden disappearance of one of the most touted features of the version 2 firmware. I could be wrong, and in fact I probably am, but in honesty I have as much to base my theories on as anyone else, so why not opine just like they do?