I wouldn't mind a larger layout. Having to flick to find some of the
tiny icons and getting the wrong letter on the keyboard because the keys
are so small are problems I can live without. I'm sure for visual users
more real estate means less time spent scrolling, which would be a
similar gain for voiceover users.
A bit of Mac history. When the Mac first came out (1984) it was a single
tasking machine with copy paste to move data between apps as you quit
and start them. Later (1985) Andy Hertzfeld made 'switcher' which, if
you had the RAM, let you switch between a handful of apps and seems to
parallel the iPhone application management today with just one app
running at a time. Next came multifinder (1987) where you could load up
multiple apps and they would run concurrently through cooperative
multitasking. Each app got the CPU, would do a little work, and then
gave it back. Low overhead to live in the available resources but if one
app took too long or crashed everything else got hung up. That was the
way things worked from System 5 until System 9 (1999). It wasn't until
OSX in 2001 that real preemptive multitasking came around. Even then,
some might argue OSX wasn't really usable for the mainstream until OSX
10.2 (2003). The point of all this is the iPhone is a really at the
MacOS 4 stage. Resources are very constrained both from a CPU and memory
standpoint. To do any more compromises battery life. It wasn't even
until the 3rd generation that compute power increased enough to do TTS.
So, welcome to the beginning. I expect a similar progression over time
and it should take far less than the 17 years on MacOS to get multiple
apps running concurrently.
CB
william lomas wrote:
again i don't see the point. an iphone and or ipod can do almost
anything so why waste money and efforts having a tablet. getting the
iphone to multitask and work like a normal phone i.e. alowing me to do
several things at once is preferable
On 27 Jan 2010, at 11:32, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
Thanks for this.
The iPhone os though. grrrrr. Since its probably going to cost a fair
bit more than the iPhone, surely I should be able to put what I want
on it?
On 27/01/2010, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
In a CNBC interview about earning with Terry McGraw. Video is here:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?play=1&video=1396376379
/"Yeah, Very exciting. Yes, they'll make their announcement tomorrow on
this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the
Tablet is
going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be
transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now is we have a
consortium of e-books. And we have 95% of all our materials that are in
e-book format on that one. So now with the tablet you're going to open
up the higher education market, the professional market. The tablet is
going to be just really terrific."
CB
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