The timer/stopwatch does continue to work if you exit the application. Likewise, the iPhone will continue to play your music if you exit the iPod application and do something like access the browser. To prove that these things are true, I just started a stopwatch, exited to iPod, started a song, exited to Safari, loaded a web page, continued to listen to the song, exited back to the stopwatch and saw that I spend 1:45 of my life debunking this while still listening to the song (I was typing this message at the same time, it needn't have taken that long).
The thing that you should take away from that is that "no multi-tasking" is a bit over-hyped. The iPhone absolutely can multi-task, Apple just doesn't let developers do it. It's all about battery life. There are, however, rumors that Apple is open to allowing select vendors run background tasks and is in talks with them about it. I have no idea if the rumors are true or will bear out any results. Again, you are free to agree or disagree with the philosophy, but their goal is to preserve battery life, and the reality of it is that it is pretty elegantly handled. -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IPhone 3g <Nightmare> Except that on my winmobile device, I like to be able to have a timer/stopwatch going while I check email... the music player going while I'm surfing, etc... -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:17 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: IPhone 3g <Nightmare> > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Rod Trent<[email protected]> > wrote: > > iPhones do not multitask, i.e.,. you can only run one app at a time. > > While I consider that a limitation myself, in all seriousness, from > what I've seen, most users don't use multitasking, either. They just > get confused at the prospect. > > But still, I agree, the iPhone's approach to multi-tasking seems > like a return to the days of classic System and co-operative > multi-tasking. On a phone running a BSD Unix core. Way to go, Apple. > > > iPhones are chained to iTunes. > > When I b*tched about this in another forum recently, some iPhone fan > said there was a package from Apple that did the management stuff the > iPhone can do, without needing the iTunes kit. No experience with it. > YMMV. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
