multitasking on iOS 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg-gfF3Pryc&feature=player_embedded
what do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg-gfF3Pryc&feature=player_embedded
what do you think?
Looks depressingly real enough. Mixing up UI bits that creates new problems while not solving any of the existing ones. Seems perfectly possible that it would come from the same company making mostly negative changes to OSX with Lion.
So we've got a fast switching menu that's less obvious as it uses thumbnails rather than icons (especially if an app isn't doing much or whitescreening) and still doesn't solve the most obvious problem in that it's so difficult to close an app (close, not background). The old menu requires holding down until wiggles appear, which was always stupid - dragging and dropping an icon outside the dock should kill it. And the entire backgrounding menu was clumsy in the first place - Windows Mobile never gained traction because it was so difficult to kill apps, and the same has become true of iOS - there needs to be a single gesture or button that kills an app when you're in it. Ideally the home button should do it and there should be another button for fast switching.
What's show here reminds me of the early change to the design of Mobile Safari that moved the search bar so it was always visable - a change that doesn't work, that nobody wanted and that was done in complete lack of comprehension of the existing problem and ended up making things worse.
Sigh. Hopefully a lot of other things are fixed a heck of a lot better than this. There's a Bluetooth icon, lets hope that's there and adds essential functionality.
Phazer
But I completely agree there needs to be *something* to quit out of the program while you are in it.
Windows Mobile never gained traction because it was so difficult to kill apps
Hold the Power button until the Power Off slider appears. Release the Power button and hold the Home button until app closes.
(this change took place when Voice Control was introduced)
Update 2: Facebook integration is here!? It’s probably integrated nicely with Media Stream for photo uploading and such. Cool. Thanks, Will Strafach, Stephen H, Piratx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gSqtubjTis&feature=player_embedded
For the record I never forcefully quit apps*. An OS like iOS is designed to not require a task manager. If there is a problem with the implementation that requires the users to force quit, it needs to be fixed at the core of the OS.
Making the user manage tasks is a poor workaround for OS/App issues.
*I do occasionally force quit TomTom, since it's quicker then actually canceling a route in progress. but thats more of an application quirk than an OS issue.