iOS 7 - True multitasking?

[C DM]

Its no different than using a computer while the TV is on.

It is different when you try to do that on the same small screen.

 

[darngooddesign]

It is different when you try to do that on the same small screen.

Its not for me. I've used Quasar on my jail broken iPads for a while and it's great. I don't find it any more distracting than having a TV on or having Hulu open in one window on my MBPS while doing something else in another window.

But if you lack focus and are easily distracted then it wouldn't be a good thing.

 

[TroyBoy30]

Its no different than using a computer while the TV is on.

so youre used to not actually watching the video. i prefer to pay attention to something i have a desire to watch

 

[jav6454]

iOS 6 multitasking was limited to apps using a select few APIs that were would run in the background. Any app that was in the background had it state frozen and would not run. Now its more like other operating systems that the app continues to run and not frozen

I hate this, buh-bye battery life.

 

[Cod3rror]

so youre used to not actually watching the video. i prefer to pay attention to something i have a desire to watch

Yea, sometimes it's great having something play in the background.

When you're listening to music, you don't have the Music.app open and keep staring at it right? You do something else.

 

[darngooddesign]

so youre used to not actually watching the video. i prefer to pay attention to something i have a desire to watch

Sometimes I want to watch it, sometimes I like to have it in the background.

If there is a baseball game on, for example, you don't really need to focus on the entire thing, even the commercials, for the duration of the game, you can put it in a window while you do something else and then return your focus to it.

Personally I think you are lying that if something is on the tv, you do nothing except for watching that thing on the tv screen. Even checking the TV guide counts as doing something else, and I doubt that you shush anyone else in the room who might ask you something. Do you also stare at the screen when there are commercials? Remember if you do anything except for staring at the screen, you are no longer paying attention to something you have the desire to watch.

To be fair, it's possible that you are so bad at multitasking that you have to focus at one single task at a time. In whic case I apologize about saying you lied in the previous paragraph.

 

[C DM]

Yea, sometimes it's great having something play in the background.

When you're listening to music, you don't have the Music.app open and keep staring at it right? You do something else.

While I agree with the overall point, watching something and listening to something are completely different things...at least in the sense that when listening to something you certainly don't have anything to watch (at least as far as the Music app example is concerned). And you can certainly still listen to things while doing something else in iOS (even if it's actually audio from a video).

 

[TroyBoy30]

Sometimes I want to watch it, sometimes I like to have it in the background.

If there is a baseball game on, for example, you don't really need to focus on the entire thing, even the commercials, for the duration of the game, you can put it in a window while you do something else and then return your focus to it.

Personally I think you are lying that if something is on the tv, you do nothing except for watching that thing on the tv screen. Even checking the TV guide counts as doing something else, and I doubt that you shush anyone else in the room who might ask you something. Do you also stare at the screen when there are commercials? Remember if you do anything except for staring at the screen, you are no longer paying attention to something you have the desire to watch.

To be fair, it's possible that you are so bad at multitasking that you have to focus at one single task at a time. In whic case I apologize about saying you lied in the previous paragraph.

thats the problem. no one pays 100% attention to anything these days

yes i shush my wife and i fast forward through commercials

Do you also stare at the screen when there are commercials? Remember if you do anything except for staring at the screen, you are no longer paying attention to something you have the desire to watch.

this may be the dumbest statement ive read all week. congrats. who has a desire to watch commercials?

 

[darngooddesign]

thats the problem. no one pays 100% attention to anything these days

yes i shush my wife and i fast forward through commercials



this may be the dumbest statement ive read all week. congrats. who has a desire to watch commercials?

I don't like to watch commercials, but I don't have a way to fast forward through them on the iPad. What do you do when there are commercials on video on the iPad. Do you just watch them or do you do something else?

Being able to have two apps up would be a nice option, I would never assume to make it a requirement for everyone just because some people would like it.

But the the nice thing is that we all have diferent needs which is why I don't equate mine with everyone elses.