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Can iOS Handle Multitasking(iPhone)?

TrueBlou said:
Which is why, for instance, there's significantly more malware on Android.
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This is poking my eyes. Malware? Hahahahaha. Sorry, I must laugh. Since early days i used Android, to be exact, I used it since Donut days till Marshmallow. Never ever had malware, virus or anything like that.

If iOS is safe as you are saying, why is on AppStore, Avira, Avast or any other antivirus app?
 
Djilkosh said:
This is poking my eyes. Malware? Hahahahaha. Sorry, I must laugh. Since early days i used Android, to be exact, I used it since Donut days till Marshmallow. Never ever had malware, virus or anything like that.

If iOS is safe as you are saying, why is on AppStore, Avira, Avast or any other antivirus app?
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Personal anecdotal experiences don't really say much one way or another as far as the overall concept goes.
 
Djilkosh said:
This is poking my eyes. Malware? Hahahahaha. Sorry, I must laugh. Since early days i used Android, to be exact, I used it since Donut days till Marshmallow. Never ever had malware, virus or anything like that.

If iOS is safe as you are saying, why is on AppStore, Avira, Avast or any other antivirus app?
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Just because you've never seen something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I've never seen an elephant in the wild, does that mean there's none of those and they're made using cgi for television?

As for antivirus apps, they exist because some people are daft enough to think they need them. Companies won't miss out on an opportunity to get their products generating them revenue.

So, laugh all you like. Then do even a teeny, tiny bit of research and you'll quickly find the ratio of malware and viruses by mobile operating system.
 
TrueBlou said:
Then do even a teeny, tiny bit of research and you'll quickly find the ratio of malware and viruses by mobile operating system.
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And you belive everything that you read? How do you know that it is not paid marketing for "anti malware app"?
 
Djilkosh said:
And you belive everything that you read? How do you know that it is not paid marketing for "anti malware app"?
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Versus believing what you don't read?

So you're basically saying you'll raise your anecdotal fallacy of generalization with unproven conspiracy theory? I think I've read all I need to from you. :confused:o_O:rolleyes:
 
Djilkosh said:
If iOS is safe as you are saying, why is on AppStore, Avira, Avast or any other antivirus app?
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Funniest comment of the month! Are you saying that if it is in the store it must serve a purpose?

Wow fart apps are really usefull then!

You should install MacKeeper in your mac....after all it is plastered everywhere on the web it must do something good right? (ANSWER NO MACKEEPER is the greatest scam ever!!!)
 
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ppcebay said:
Funniest comment of the month! Are you saying that if it is in the store it must serve a purpose?

Wow fart apps are really usefull then!

You should install MacKeeper in your mac....after all it is plastered everywhere on the web it must do something good right? (ANSWER NO MACKEEPER is the greatest scam ever!!!)
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You say that, but how else could I get away with farting when we have visitors without saying, oh eh that was my phone by the way :D
 
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ppcebay said:
Funniest comment of the month! Are you saying that if it is in the store it must serve a purpose?

Wow fart apps are really usefull then!

You should install MacKeeper in your mac....after all it is plastered everywhere on the web it must do something good right? (ANSWER NO MACKEEPER is the greatest scam ever!!!)
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That's not my quote. You inserted extra.
 
macfacts said:
I have a Samsung tab s from 2014 that can do split screen so I can watch YouTube and use Chrome at same time. No need for YouTube Red. Maybe it is the OS.
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It was explained earlier... Android = Google.... YouTube = Google... Google makes it easy on its os....and it is natural to do so (hey you can do that on the other os, but it'll cost you!!).

They try to make it "harder" for competitors, it is a way to make your product more valuable.
 
Short answer is no. iOS can't multitask in general. If it could, Facebook wouldn't have to do ugly hacks like playing silent audio so it can run in the background on iOS.
 
macfacts said:
Short answer is no. iOS can't multitask in general. If it could, Facebook wouldn't have to do ugly hacks like playing silent audio so it can run in the background on iOS.
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If Facebook designed a better app they probably wouldn't have do stupid hacks and maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't be as notoriously crap an app as it is just now for hogging resources.
 
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macfacts said:
I have a Samsung tab s from 2014 that can do split screen so I can watch YouTube and use Chrome at same time. No need for YouTube Red. Maybe it is the OS.
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If Apple can do that on the iPad then why not on the 7 plus? All Apple has to do is implement a setting to turn it off if the people who said it's stupid don't want to use it. For instance if I'm watching a video on the Facebook app and I get a text that I want to respond to quick, Facebook goes to the background and is 'suspended' then I respond to the text 'yes', then when I go back to Facebook I have to hit play again. Doesn't keep playing.
 
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macher said:
If Apple can do that on the iPad then why not on the 7 plus? All Apple has to do is implement a setting to turn it off if the people who said it's stupid don't want to use it.
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Well thats Apple for you, there's absolutely no technical reason why they couldn't do it. But in typical Apple fashion, they'll only do it if and when they decide it's necessary. Look how long it took us to get copy and paste back in the day.


Of course you could submit feedback to Apple, that's far more productive than us complaining about it here. The more feedback and requests they get for something, the more likely they are to implement it.
 
Qbnkelt said:
No matter how long you stay away from this forum, when you come back for curiosity's sake, you find the same posts by the same people rehashing previous posts from eons ago.
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That's maybe a little unfair, so long as it's relevant and current information I don't think anyone's really guilty of rehashing old posts. And as far as this topic is concerned I think we do need to distinguish that in actual fact the "multitasking" offered in iOS 4.0 is certainly by definition true multitasking.


:p
 
TrueBlou said:
That's maybe a little unfair, so long as it's relevant and current information I don't think anyone's really guilty of rehashing old posts. And as far as this topic is concerned I think we do need to distinguish that in actual fact the "multitasking" offered in iOS 4.0 is certainly by definition true multitasking.


:p
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I disagree. This horse has been Lucilled as much as Glenn's head.

It was interesting to see all over again.
 
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macfacts said:
Short answer is no. iOS can't multitask in general. If it could, Facebook wouldn't have to do ugly hacks like playing silent audio so it can run in the background on iOS.
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There is an important distinction between "iOS can't multitask" and "iOS restricts what third-party apps can do in the background".
 
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tomjleeds said:
There is an important distinction between "iOS can't multitask" and "iOS restricts what third-party apps can do in the background".
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Ok thanks. Thought that iOS iPhone couldn't implement for some reason.
 
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