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Can't stand the IOS4 Multitasking
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Okay, so because you can edit your contacts in the NATIVE iphone contacts app and have it still go back to where it was means that there's no problem?
Unless you're not an App junkie, I can't see anyone not having at least 1 app on their phone that doesn't truly support "multitasking."
I was referring to his particular situation. Re-read his original post and then my reply. I was simply stating that perhaps something is amiss considering when I try to replicate his steps I don't have the same result.
I'm well aware of the fact that not all apps have the new API's in use, and I am quite the app junkie.
But that's just you. Not everyone has that option. Maybe you should just jailbreak your phone and use backgrounder.
God so many of you do absolutely NO RESEARCH into what your buying then go and bitch about it on a forum. Un freakin believable.
Agreed. If you're one of those people who wants apps to actually run in the background, just jailbreak and download backgrounder. Because I'm pretty sure Apple's never going to do it.
Jailbreaking is now just as easy as unlocking your phone, and it works on every device.
+1!!
Op, if you don't like that it does MT like other devices then return it! Damn, we don't need to hear bitching all day about people who don't research what they're buying. If you dont like it, RETURN IT! Simple as that!
For all of the complaining about "True Multitasking" vs "Task Switching" I find it ironic that OP is describing a "Task Switching" scenario. 
OP does have a point, but it's not as malicious as he want to make it out. The developer of the Contacts app (Apple) has decided to cancel the edit mode during a switch. This is an explicit design choice probably intended to avoid user confusion. Unfortunately this is not the action desired by OP.
On the bright side, the JB is available for OP to tweak the experience to his liking.
Personally I love the iOS4 implementation and frequently have several apps running and doing work in the background (not sleeping/suspended)
For example:
OP does have a point, but it's not as malicious as he want to make it out. The developer of the Contacts app (Apple) has decided to cancel the edit mode during a switch. This is an explicit design choice probably intended to avoid user confusion. Unfortunately this is not the action desired by OP.
On the bright side, the JB is available for OP to tweak the experience to his liking.
Personally I love the iOS4 implementation and frequently have several apps running and doing work in the background (not sleeping/suspended)
For example:
iCab Mobile - Loading a pages/downloading files
TomTom - Providing Turn by Turn
GeoTag Photos - Logging my route
Podcatcher - Streaming Audio
BeeJive IM - Instant Messaging
For many applications simple Task Switching is the correct course, but it's all up to how the developers code the app.TomTom - Providing Turn by Turn
GeoTag Photos - Logging my route
Podcatcher - Streaming Audio
BeeJive IM - Instant Messaging
+1
If you get so worked up about a simple cell phone to the point that you "can't stand" how it functions, why the hell are you keeping it? Why complain about it here?
Instead of making the multitasking icons wiggle and x them away you should be able to slide them up back on to the springboard in a more natural motion.
Would be much easier to do and less annoying!
Would be much easier to do and less annoying!
Multitasking is not as useful as I anticipated and now my home button is starting to stick. Apple and developers have a ways to go before this is a completely seamless experience.
Probably a copyright/patents issue with Palm/HP. Just like the keyboard can't visually toggle between upper and lower case letters due to it being patented.
But why are you trying to remove them? in the vast majority of cases they are idol.
Well everyone has at least a computer and wall charging option. Even with just those two I'd be alright. Only reason it would work for me is because I work inside, but if you're in something like construction, for example, then a charge wouldn't be as readily available.
I can manage my app usage as I have for over a year with multiflow. I also can't stand how everything you open gets minimized and is in the tray it doesn't save time searching for the app because u have to scroll all across a thousand apps I've had open.
There needs to be an option in settings to disable this crap
lol. No. The parameters on how the phone works were laid out and that is how it functions. If its to the point where you "can't stand
" kindly untwist your panties and return the damn device. This may come as a surprise, but manufactures don't make phones so you personally are happy. Ok?
It's not a task manager, it's a recently used app list. It's meant to create an dynamic workflow for users, since most of the time people are only using a small subset of apps at a time. If you havn't used the app in a while, it's not a part of your current workflow; just launch it from the home screen.
Protip - You don't have to use the task dock. Task switching functions the same from the home screen or dock
Protip II - You shouldn't need to manage your open apps. Try ignoring it for a few days.
You are wrong it's not supposed to be a timeline it's marketed as "multitasking" in all facets of the word. They have it all over their website as multitasking. I posted the definition of multitasking and this is an incorrect interpretation of it. As well false advertising it can do many things in the background but not edit contacts is a joke
Your claiming that I'm wrong, yet you are the one struggling with the implementation. I find it intuitive and predictable. You can try using it the way I suggest or continue to fight with it in frustration.
As for the "problem" in the contacts app, it is a concious design choice on the part of the developer to exit "edit mode" when switching between apps. You may not like it and you have options via JB. Personally, I feel the burden of tapping the edit button is trivial at best and only serves as a nitpick.
Yep, if I'm trying 2 add a phone number from Notes to Contacts, if I can't remember the full number and switch back 2 notes, when I go back to contacts I have to star over again.
A) Remember last year when everyone was griping about copy and paste? Yeah...use that.
B) When I edit a contact, fast switch over to notes, get the rest of the number, and fast app switch back to contacts, all I have to do is tap "Edit" and put in the rest of the info. Not sure what you're doing differently.
I believe that Apple's model of multitasking is going to be the direction all other OS's will be heading. True, desktop-class multitasking does not make sense for a mobile platform, and mobile is the future. Apple's paradigm strikes a balance between battery life, system resources, and the ability to have tasks run in the background. As mentioned above, the onus is on the app developer to use a specific set of API's in order to allow the user to multitask their app.
Android follows a similar model as Apple, but has a much broader array of services that are allowed to run in the background. It's a guarantee that as iOS evolves, more and more services will be permitted to continue running behind the scenes. That is the only difference between Android and iOS' multitasking implementations. WebOS is probably the only phone OS that follows the desktop paradigm, and IMO, can suffer for it.
Like many things in life, multitasking is a game of give and take, of costs and benefits, and a balance must be struck in order to provide the best experience to the user.
Android follows a similar model as Apple, but has a much broader array of services that are allowed to run in the background. It's a guarantee that as iOS evolves, more and more services will be permitted to continue running behind the scenes. That is the only difference between Android and iOS' multitasking implementations. WebOS is probably the only phone OS that follows the desktop paradigm, and IMO, can suffer for it.
Like many things in life, multitasking is a game of give and take, of costs and benefits, and a balance must be struck in order to provide the best experience to the user.
Multitasking works fine. I have an app called Radiotime in which I can listen to every radiostation around the nation. Before Multitasking, I wasn't able to go on the web and listen to the radio together. Now I can run Radiotime in the background while I go on the web. Multitasking is ok. No complaints.
LOL!!!
Apples native apps have been working in the background since 1.0
Try again mon ami.