iPhone 4.0, Multi-Tasking This Summer

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I've been using the Android platform and while sometimes I think I might like an iPhone then "new" features are announced and I come to my senses.

Apple this summer will go a long way towards silencing critics and catering to one of the most prevalent demands of its iPhone user base, when it introduces a multitasking solution through the handset's 4.0 software update that will finally allow several third party apps to run concurrently and in the background.
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If you want these features today I hear getting your phone jailbroken is the "in" thing to do.
 
About fucking time. Woot I'll probably get to work on an iPhone app soon :D Woot.
 
Kritter said:
Still no word on Safari getting Flash 10.1?
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I hope not! Pages would bog the hell down.

If they implement Flash support, I hope it's set up so that app developers can make apps with Flash support. A Hulu app for example would be awesome.
 
I absolutely LOATHE Apple and I LOATHE the fact that my girlfriend thinks so highly of Apple products.

I mean come on, I may just be stating the obvious here but I wouldn't be surprised if multitasking is the only real noticeable difference (aside from cosmetic), which essentially means your continuing the trend of paying for new features just to keep the device current with what other devices can do. What did the current update do that is actually noticeable? Add copy and paste and landscape keyboard and a few other fixes for a price.

I am very grateful to Research In Motion (and any other phone maker) that release OS updates for free. However, I do fear that other manufacturers will start using Apple's business practices as it seems to be successful.
 
Doom4life said:
I mean come on, I may just be stating the obvious here but I wouldn't be surprised if multitasking is the only real noticeable difference (aside from cosmetic), which essentially means your continuing the trend of paying for new features just to keep the device current with what other devices can do.
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We have no idea whether Apple is going to charge for OS 4.0 or not. You seem to be getting angry at Apple over your own speculation.
 
Doom4life said:
I absolutely LOATHE Apple and I LOATHE the fact that my girlfriend thinks so highly of Apple products.

I mean come on, I may just be stating the obvious here but I wouldn't be surprised if multitasking is the only real noticeable difference (aside from cosmetic), which essentially means your continuing the trend of paying for new features just to keep the device current with what other devices can do. What did the current update do that is actually noticeable? Add copy and paste and landscape keyboard and a few other fixes for a price.

I am very grateful to Research In Motion (and any other phone maker) that release OS updates for free. However, I do fear that other manufacturers will start using Apple's business practices as it seems to be successful.
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Wow such hate. We have never paid for iPhone OS upgrades. Copy and paste has been available since 3.0 and MMS since 3.1.
 
phide said:
We have no idea whether Apple is going to charge for OS 4.0 or not. You seem to be getting angry at Apple over your own speculation.
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True... And I was about to add another post so I didn't come across as outright hating Apple and bashing anything. I am glad that they are finally adding multitasking. Occasionally I do use my girlfriends ipod touch and I always was annoyed about the lack of multitasking.

If they release the update for free, good on them.
 
Wasnt the 3.0 update a paid update? Not a lot of money...$20-30 or something, but you had to pay for it nonetheless.
 
Doom4life said:
True... And I was about to add another post so I didn't come across as outright hating Apple and bashing anything. I am glad that they are finally adding multitasking. Occasionally I do use my girlfriends ipod touch and I always was annoyed about the lack of multitasking.

If they release the update for free, good on them.
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TBH I wasn't so much annoyed by multitasking as I was annoyed by some developer's lack of consideration of this fact. It was well known for years that iPhones cannot multitask and some devs still fail to implement their own "save position" code so we can switch back to where we left off. A lot of devs do this, but there are many who don't either.

In a perfect world, this would be more ideal as multiple apps running in the background would eat up some battery life. But since this isn't going to happen, multitasking would be the next best thing.

Unless I'm missing something that multitaskers would need? Music can already be multitasked, and browser position can already be saved.
 
Azhar said:
Wow such hate. We have never paid for iPhone OS upgrades. Copy and paste has been available since 3.0 and MMS since 3.1.
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Than I must apologize for my hate as I didn't know enough. The only experience I have is with the iPod Touch... And you had to pay to upgrade to OS 3.0 (which added copy and paste). I was under the impression that it was the same for iPhone owners since they share the same OS.
 
So, the iPhone is getting a "feature" that every operating system since the 1960's, as well as every other smartphone OS has... good job getting with the times Apple....

I'll stick with Android thanks. But tht fanbois will eat it up like it's the next big thing :rolleyes:
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kirbyrj said:
Wasnt the 3.0 update a paid update? Not a lot of money...$20-30 or something, but you had to pay for it nonetheless.
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Just for iPod touch users not iPhone...which is pretty lame but whatever.

I own an iPhone and love it, its a good phone that people just like to hate on.
 
Sorry, I forgo, MS-DOS didn't support multitasking. Yay, they one-upped MS on something. Oh, wait...
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darkhunter139 said:
Just for iPod touch users not iPhone...which is pretty lame but whatever.

I own an iPhone and love it, its a good phone that people just like to hate on.
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Ok...I wasn't sure. I don't have a problem with the iPhone. My friends have them, but I've always been with Verizon (better coverage where I live and my family all has Verizon). I'd like to see a higher res screen like the nexus one and Droid on the next gen though.
 
Azhar, I totally agree with you about the lack of coding from developers. This is where I get annoyed. If I need to check the time or battery level, I have to quit the app/game and lose my spot, check it and then reopen the app/game.
 
Azhar said:
Unless I'm missing something that multitaskers would need? Music can already be multitasked, and browser position can already be saved.
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I'd like to be able to update my accounts on Mint while doing something else. Apart from that, I really can't think of anything else I'd need multitasking support for.

On a desktop or laptop, the lack of multitasking would be intolerable. On a phone, for me at least, it's totally forgivable. Not being able to multitask apps is really an occasional annoyance at best.
 
Once again it takes apple more then a year for users to have multi task! ahm..copy paste!
sorry apple but android is the way of future! And with CyanogenMod on nexus one the phone transforms to real super phone LINK
 
Steve, I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but both those links go to the same place. :p
 
b31ac said:
Once again it takes apple more then a year for users to have multi task! ahm..copy paste!
sorry apple but android is the way of future! And with CyanogenMod on nexus one the phone transforms to real super phone LINK
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Well then Google better get it's ass in gear because Android is crap ATM.
 
phide said:
I'd like to be able to update my accounts on Mint while doing something else. Apart from that, I really can't think of anything else I'd need multitasking support for.

On a desktop or laptop, the lack of multitasking would be intolerable. On a phone, for me at least, it's totally forgivable. Not being able to multitask apps is really an occasional annoyance at best.
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I dunno, the browser on my iPod touch gets hell bent on re-loading pages sometimes when I've only been away from it for half a minute to read an e-mail or copy something elsewhere, it gets irritating for me. /shrug But lack of multi-tasking isn't even amongst the top three reasons why I wouldn't buy an iPhone (despite being reasonably happy w/the iPod touch as a media player).

Then again, I don't even own a smartphone right now so once I've lived and suffered with another one for a while I might change my tune... Still waiting for AT&T to get something Android-based that isn't a complete turd like the Backflip turned out. They've got 5 more tries before June, otherwise I'm going w/Sprint (my only other viable choice w/3G down here, tho T-Mo has been saying it'll roll it out soon since the end of '09).
 
lathode said:
Well then Google better get it's ass in gear because Android is crap ATM.
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What??

I've used iPhones, own an iPod Touch, several Windows Mobile devices, including the Omnia, I've used the Palm-Pre with Web OS, and I've used several different blackberry devices, including older button only models and the new touch screen models. I also now own a Droid Eris. Aside from one issue I have it's the best phone I've ever owned, and it's tremendously smarter and just about as intuitive as Apple's iPhone/iPod interface. Plus you get a device that multitasks and is not locked up like a safe.

I don't even know why I'm responding to your obvious flame bait but Android is not crap...
 
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