At 11:31 AM -0700 4/9/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Dan wrote:
At 12:43 PM -0700 4/8/2010, Austin Leeds wrote:
Well, the multitasking argument just went down in flames. Apple's
iPhone OS 4 is going to introduce multitasking on the iPad this fall,
and on the iPhone and iPod Touch this summer.
No, it's a very limited form of multitasking.
From the iPhone SDK info on developer.apple.com:
[snip]
What multitasking do you need that isn't in this list? You can't set
up faceless daemons, but jeezus, you shouldn't be doing that on a
phone. The difference between a daemon and virus is intent...
Ars is starting to provide details.
Basically, apps pushed into the background are suspended. They can
request a little time, but not a lot. That means, for example, IMs
and other keep-alive based protocols will wither and die.
I guess I'm an evil SOB. I expect an 800 MHz+ device to be able to
do everything my 300-MHz Smurf can do. Or at least what my old
25-MHz Mac IIci can do. You know, like running *multiple* apps WITH
contexts, and not having them die when pushed into the background.
- Dan.
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