That is really up to the developer. Apps can continue running in the background for a period of time. I have a poker game that keeps me in the game when I switch apps.
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Developer Sees First Crash Report From iOS 5.0
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That is really up to the developer. Apps can continue running in the background for a period of time. I have a poker game that keeps me in the game when I switch apps.
If you employed people, and when you stopped looking at one person they froze in their tracks with whatever they were doing at the time, and only started moving again, when you were looking at them again, you would not call them multitasking
But I'm fine with what the iPad does, I just don't like the lies from Apple trying to redefine the accepted meaning of multitasking and them people accepting this new meaning of the term.
With all due respect Piggie, your post above demonstrates that you don't understand how iOS multi tasks. In your analogy, it would be more like ...
If you employed somebody and when you stopped looking at them, they continued to finish the task they were doing, they reported on progress, you could still hear them even though they were out of your field of view and you could look right back at them when you wanted to, and they continued to monitor a source for new instructions... That's multi tasking.
The end result is multi tasking. Apps do not "freeze" completely. Only unnecessary portions of the app freeze. You don't need the app rendering graphics if it's not visible. On the other hand, if an app can play streaming radio in the background while you browse Safari, while at the same time a chat app is sending you push notifications of new messages and a sports app is notifying you of scores in an ongoing game... That is Multitasking.
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Bull! I don't believe it's the first crash. Any decent OS in development is bound to crash. It's perfectly normal.
The fact that it's just being reported now is more of a testament to Apple's excellent secrecy than anything else.
Apple is far more professional when it comes to keeping company secrets, than any other public company I'm aware of.
Something like this is hard to be considered legitimate, since anybody can change their iOS version number (if jailbroken, of course) and have it put into a crash report.
I have no real issue about how it handles task switching, however, as you say the way it handles multitasking is, in effect by not multitasking.
We can argue all day, but apart from the Apple code, and a few bits here and there, the iPad does not multi task, it freezes a program.
That's not multitasking.
If you employed people, and when you stopped looking at one person they froze in their tracks with whatever they were doing at the time, and only started moving again, when you were looking at them again, you would not call them multitasking
But I'm fine with what the iPad does, I just don't like the lies from Apple trying to redefine the accepted meaning of multitasking and them people accepting this new meaning of the term.
The Playbook multitasks for real. It can play a movie and play a game at the same time. that is multitasking.
But, again, let me say, I'm fine with the "Task Switching/Freezing" system that Apple have implemented as it works fine in general.
Do you want know a secret? The latest brain based research shows that multi-tasking is a myth and humans are unable to do it.
it's science.
Not only does this article explain it well, but we just finished learning about this via a guest speaker in college
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794
so the "multi-tasking" myth can stop. For what apple has devised for us is perfect, because we switch from task to task quickly, not multitask.
So drinking my water with one hand while typing this with the other isnt multitasking?
Well, so much for the white iPhone 4... 
That thing was exciting for about 10 minutes- and now we're already hearing news about stuff for the next generation.
That thing was exciting for about 10 minutes- and now we're already hearing news about stuff for the next generation.
Probably the iOS version updated for the Apple TV relaunch... with Apps.
Ooh the store is down, time to head out for a white iPhone4, iOS updates have just about crippled my old 3G.
Ooh the store is down, time to head out for a white iPhone4, iOS updates have just about crippled my old 3G.
The gestures unlock just fine on iPhone (although not with XCode), it's just hard to gesture with 4 fingers on the screen at once.
Combined with the rumors of the loss of the home button, I expect iPad 3 and iPhone 6 to extend the digitizer to the former home button area, and the gestures to be modified to swipe-up-from-home, pinch-with-one-finger-on-home, and swipe-left/right-across-home.
The next iPhone will have a) an A5 chip b) more RAM c) *maybe* more flash d) possibly a very slightly physically larger screen with the same res. All that in the exact same chassis.
If that is not a 4S I don't know what would be. However, it wouldn't be entirely logical for iPhone 4 to be paired with A4 and iPhone 4S to be paired with A5, presumably followed by an iPhone 5 containing A6.
My opinion is that the next iPhone will *be* effectively a 4S model, but will be called 5.
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I always wondered why when I was walking down the road and the phone rang and I reached into my pocket to answer it that I fell over as my legs got all confused, my heart stopped beating and I lost bowel control and crapped my pants. Know I know
Actually that article sounds just like how real computers have multitasked for decades. I even remember one of the 1st Amiga reviews where they showed a bouncing ball animation and the triangles/boxes demo and them still being able to operate the Amiga desktop at the same time. The CPU/GPU was doing a few cycles of one thing then doing a few cycles of something else and so on, switching in tiny fractions of a second between all the tasks it has to do so quickly that to the human eye/mind they all appeared to be running at the same time.
In the same way a movie at the cinema is just a collection a still frames flipped between fast enough so that to the human eye/mind they appear to give movement, and how games appear to move on a computer screen when we are only seeing one frame at a time, but it looks smooth and fast to us.
That is what multitasking has always meant, flipping between different tasks so fast that they all appear to be running at the same time.
I just tried something on the iPad a moment ago, loaded up my web browser with quite a few tabs, and rather thar wait for all the tabs to load, I closed it down to the "multitasking bar!" and loaded up the email client, checked my email, then went back to the web browser to see if all the tabs had now loaded (whilst I was away checking my email)
Nope. The web browser had stopped and done nothing, it just closed down and saved it's state.
Let's hope ios5 might allow such things to work.
