Oh you are right. I remember them rushing to market with a half baked offering when rumors that apple was working on such a service filled up the internet with details of what they were planning. They weren't expecting the match so they had to go back and copy that later.
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Auxo Shows Off a Redesigned iOS App Switcher
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It's nice, but closing out apps isn't really something you do in iOS. The "card" previews look better than plain icons, but I don't think they add any actual utility for the user. The best thing here is clearly the toggle shortcuts, which Apple really should add to the multitasking menu.
I'm still waiting for an unteathered iOS6 Jailbreak for my iPhone 4S 
Anyone know if there is one yet ?
Anyone know if there is one yet ?
will apple hire this guys to add these evident features asked by many
Absolutely, Apple should use some of that extra cash to hire these guys!
I can't imagine Apple being so stagnant they need to hire people to implement something simple as this.
Do you also empty your browser cache and delete your history every time you switch away from the browser?
If not, why is having a history of app usage and a caching of the last state of the app worse than a internet browsing history and a caching of the last state of every visited website?
The good news is Apple is definitely listening to this. They know people think the iOS design is stale; they will see the massive positive reception this has been getting and the comments in the press about how worn iOS has become.
We should definitely see some changes come iOS7. I have no doubt about that.
We should definitely see some changes come iOS7. I have no doubt about that.
Then you just maintain a curated history of app usage as a quick launching service. Nothing against that, but it might be easier to put all the apps that you want to keep in the app history just onto the first two pages of the homescreen. To get to your 20 most used apps is much faster via the homescreen than via the app switcher.
I would not worry about that 10 min limit but apps that misuse it like you describe it definitely deserve to be killed. But only those apps and not just all apps, killing all apps to catch a few bad apples is not a very efficient way of doing things.
Again, agreed. But that is just a few select apps. I kill those apps too but they are only a small fraction of the apps I mostly use.
If people create the impression that it is best to always kill all apps because they are misinformed, they misinform others. If your motives are based on misinformation and because of this you misinform others, one is perfectly justified to question your motives.
There are situations where it can be beneficial. The clearest cut case is Handbrake. It uses a lot of memory and then releases it, creating a large pool of inactive memory. That is not bad in itself, but in the process of requesting and then releasing memory it pushes out all inactive memory used by other applications. This can lead to degraded performance in these other applications.
Of course, running purge throws out all inactive memory. But it takes a while for Handbrake to chew through all free memory again (depending on your processing power and total memory). During this time (ie, before it has gobbled up all free memory), being able to have other application re-use their own inactive memory can lead to a noticeable performance increase.
Functionality and usability is what matters most to Apple, they won't give up that simply because things have become 'stale'.
People should acknowledge the elegance and extreme usability and functionality iOS currently offers. This is so much more important than looks (still 10x better than Android) which have become boring or stale.
IOS needs to refresh on API's and functionality, not the looks.
I mean like siri and how I am pretty sure apple didn't even give the original app credit for the name
what about that notification center from Android?
I had a lockinfo widget which allowed me to have a notification center based feature, on my first generation iPhone.
Android was barely anything back then, and notifications it definitely did not have yet. Stop using such trivial things, as proof, that makes it seem like it was stolen from Android. Neither Google nor Apple came up with the "idea" of a notification center.
This doesn't look like anything Apple has ever put out. I know people think Apple is the best company so anything "cool" seems like something Apple would have done, but Apple has never put toggles or quick access to brightness sliders except on desktops. This does however look like something Apple MAY put out.
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dude (aka tim cook) this is good stuff
get with it aapl pull the trigger and make it happen
dude (aka tim cook) this is good stuff
get with it aapl pull the trigger and make it happen
Like I said Google introduced it in Android and after introduced it, Apple basically took that idea and made it seemed like they created this brand new amazing breakthrough notification center in iOS 5.
Love how this became an android vs ios debate. Let's get back to the topic shall we?
Personally the one thing I like from this tweak is swiping to remove apps. In my previous jail broken device I had a tweak to keep the delete button on the switcher apps persistent. Never accidentally killed anything. Can't imagine many people would accidentally swipe down on apps when that was never a gesture in the first place.
As for gestures replacing the home button, check out the tweak zephyr. It's probably the one tweak I miss the most other than google voice integration and Bitesms.
Personally the one thing I like from this tweak is swiping to remove apps. In my previous jail broken device I had a tweak to keep the delete button on the switcher apps persistent. Never accidentally killed anything. Can't imagine many people would accidentally swipe down on apps when that was never a gesture in the first place.
As for gestures replacing the home button, check out the tweak zephyr. It's probably the one tweak I miss the most other than google voice integration and Bitesms.
Maybe I am a bit thick, but I think this is silly. It offers little to no functionality, but a lot of complexity. Here is a list of the "features"
-Apps appear as cards: takes more space, less obvious/simple than icons
-volume slider: I have volume hard buttons on my phone
-album art: not neccesary; at this point I should just go to the ipod
-settings: why not just use the settings app? theres multiple rows in a one row window, seems very inelegant...its practically a different window.
-preview window: Do not want. You can't see whats going on anyways
-swipe to remove apps: just click the X....
-warning when deleting app in use: I guess it could be useful, since I can't do that now
-remove all the apps at once: this is not necessary in iOS
-open up settings from toggles: thats kind of cool.
-reconfigure toggles: that is nice of them since there are so many
I don't even see why they need to redo the app switcher. It would be easier just to keep your iphone neat and tidy. One can just push home, then click the app they need.
I can imagine power users or those whose phones are loaded with apps (for what I can never imagine; I have >45 apps, they fit on 2 screens. My friend had over 120 apps over 4 screens with duplicated functionality so I guess he would want it....)
I am impressed with the workmanship; very clean. But I'll pass on this.
-Apps appear as cards: takes more space, less obvious/simple than icons
-volume slider: I have volume hard buttons on my phone
-album art: not neccesary; at this point I should just go to the ipod
-settings: why not just use the settings app? theres multiple rows in a one row window, seems very inelegant...its practically a different window.
-preview window: Do not want. You can't see whats going on anyways
-swipe to remove apps: just click the X....
-warning when deleting app in use: I guess it could be useful, since I can't do that now
-remove all the apps at once: this is not necessary in iOS
-open up settings from toggles: thats kind of cool.
-reconfigure toggles: that is nice of them since there are so many
I don't even see why they need to redo the app switcher. It would be easier just to keep your iphone neat and tidy. One can just push home, then click the app they need.
I can imagine power users or those whose phones are loaded with apps (for what I can never imagine; I have >45 apps, they fit on 2 screens. My friend had over 120 apps over 4 screens with duplicated functionality so I guess he would want it....)
I am impressed with the workmanship; very clean. But I'll pass on this.