http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02...tent_motorola/

Motorola Mobility has just won a patent lawsuit for Apple Germany infringing on their Push patent...



The outage also affects MobileMe, but anyone using ActiveSync or other push mechanisms will be fine as the companies behind those aren't being sued by Motorola Mobility. iCloud and MobileMe users will have to switch to periodic polling while Apple appeals the decision, and the mobile industry's patent war spills into the pockets of ordinary users.
Oh dear

Apple Germany has had to produce a guide advising customer's how to initiate pulling requests: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4208?v...E&locale=de_DE

Will this make IOS as useful as Symbian if it goes global?

The Motorola patent at issue in that litigation harks back to the time of pagers, a predecessor of text messages.
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2012...eactivate.html

I dont tend to read most of Florian's articles, but I'm surprised a pager patent can do this.