Apple Announces Multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0

[Nabooly]

I wonder if HTC will sue apple for multitasking......😕

 

[MorphingDragon]

I wonder if HTC will sue apple for multitasking......😕

Actually, pre-emptive multitasking first appeard in NeXT OS, something Apple owns the rights to.

 

[lilo777]

Actually, pre-emptive multitasking first appeard in NeXT OS, something Apple owns the rights to.

Actually, preemptive multitasking was used by different operating systems long (like decades) before NextStep OS was released in 1989. Bogus claim on your part.

 

[rhett7660]

Actually, pre-emptive multitasking first appeard in NeXT OS, something Apple owns the rights to.

Actually, preemptive multitasking was used by different operating systems long (like decades) before NextStep OS was released in 1989. Bogus claim on your part.

Since you both are making claims, why don't you support it with supporting links. Don't say google it, you are the two that are making the claims, back them up.

 

[NoSmokingBandit]

For example, preemptive multitasking was implemented in the earliest version of Unix [1] in 1969, and is standard in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, Solaris and BSD with its derivatives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_multitasking#Preemptive_multitasking.2Ftime-sharing


10 seconds on google gave me that link. But i guess its just easier to assume Steve created everything first.

 

[lilo777]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_multitasking#Preemptive_multitasking.2Ftime-sharing


10 seconds on google gave me that link. But i guess its just easier to assume Steve created everything first.

Did you say Google? Apple fans do not use anything but Apple's own products hence the confusion 😉

 

[fabianjj]

It will only be present in apps where the developer chooses an ad-based model. I sincerely doubt Apple is going to stick ads in their basic apps (like Mail or Contacts). And I'm guessing most developers will go the way they have up until now -- you can choose a paid version of the app with no ads or a free version with ads. I also don't believe Apple will require developers to use iAds -- if they have their own mechanism for delivering ads, I'm sure they can keep using it.

ETA: Apple is going to be taking 40% and giving the developer 60%, not the other way around. I'm not familiar with the economics of on-line ads, so I don't know how that compares to the rates for other ad brokers.

Yes, and hopefully developers will utilize this properly so we might get less annoying ads, and it would also be very nice if all developers would properly utilize the "trial version" feature already in the SDK.

 

[drmacnut]

A Grand Experiment

I echo the points others have made in thinking that adding a level of multitasking is indeed excellent for the platform - and hopefully will shut up some of the grumps that think iPhone OS is crapola just because it can't "multitask" (of course we all know it can already but just not for 3rd party app devs).

I am interested to see how the ability to multitask 3rd party apps will change the way we use the iPhone. I have a feeling this is all a Grand Experiment by Apple - trying to work out how to eventually turn iPad into the replacement for today's laptops for 90% of the Apple-buying population!

It will happen.

 

[natehugg]

Is that true?

I guess iphone 4 may not have enough attractive points,so they make mutltitasking.
But it is really useful.

 

[Max(IT)]

Why buy a new phone when you can get the new features for free?

Unfortunately, end users really are that stupid and will gladly buy a new phone to get features easily accessible on their current phone.

because, JB or not, with 3G you still have only 128 Mb of ram, and multitasking with 128 Mb of ram is a joke ...