Well, well. I've just discovered the joys of Multitasking! I was able to listen to my FIP app whilst reading my news feeds and when I went back to the news story I was reading it was just where I'd left it open. Maybe I never noticed it before for some reason. I do like the background FIP, very nice.
Still slower though :-( Stephen On 29 Nov 2010, at 17:35, Stephen Watson wrote: > Well, now that since iOS 4.2.1 I've got a "Multitasking iPad" the only > significant difference I've noticed in day to day use from my old low-tech > "Quit this app. Launch that app. Quit that app, relaunch original app" days > is that my iPad is now slower and uses the battery up faster! > > The main thing the next iPad will need is a faster processor to return its > speed back to the zippy days of iOS 3.2. I'm sure Apple will give it one. > > Ah, the joys of progress... > > Stephen > > On 28 Nov 2010, at 12:31, Jason Davies wrote: > >> Mike Shepherd wrote: >>> According to today's Sunday Times the ability to multitask will be added. >> this is an obsession of the tech media, but they already multitask >> moderately. Android machines that allow it more controllably also end up >> needing things to kill the multitasks so its usable. All you really need on >> a portable is contact (push/SMS/etc) and music. It's not like a desktop >> where you could be encoding video, leaving things half-finished, programmes >> co-operating with one another etc. > > > Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids,we'd > all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening > to repetitive electronic music. - Anonymous A world that has nearly seven billion people on it and a rapidly dwindling supply of fossil fuels, after all, has better ways to manage its affairs than those based on the assumption that putting people out of work and replacing them with fossil fuels is the way to prosperity. - John Michael Greer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
