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iPhone OS 4.0 to Bring Exposé-like Multitasking?
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I stand corrected... I was only thinking about the developers conference... What can I say, I'm still living in an "OS X World" 😀
Friscohoya
macrumors 6502a
Sure. Whatever an HTC is? 😉 There are just so many advanced multitouch options to do things and we are still stuck with the button. Even a few hot corners would work. You could turn the multitouch getures on and off in your options and assign different actions to preset multitouch gestures. The possibilities are endless but they have come up with double click the button. WHere is the insperation????
Tailpike1153
macrumors 6502a
Sweet!! I got ultra-tasking with iPhone 7.0! But it cut my battery life down to 30 seconds in between charges. 🙁. j/k. I charge my phone everyday. I'd love it even more if I could get 2-3 days of heavy use on a single charge. If multitasking drains my battery even faster than now, I'll pass.
vincebio
macrumors 6502a
eh? maybe you need to take your iphone back...
ive been using double click for 2 years on my 2g, 3g and 3gs to being up the phone app and never had a problem....
I thought this too at first.. but what will probably happen is that if you have music playing while you double click the home button to switch apps, Apple will just design the iPod controls to be in the lower or upper corner of the expose window.. so essentially, you'd see all your apps you have open, as well as the play/pause fwd, rev, and volume slider that you currently see now when you have music playing.
I don't really see a problem with using a 5-finger swipe (other then on an iPhone). I'd actually prefer for some easy gestures to be exclusively "system-wide" - especially if the iPad is going to be the workhorse it's meant to be.
QCassidy352
macrumors G5
Outstanding! This is the approach i've been advocating for months. Even better than webOS' card system (which is the gold standard, as of now).
That's actually a pretty good idea. Just gotta make sure I can see the name of the artist and song as well.
ipedro
macrumors 604
iPhone Exposé: Large App Icons
App icons are a lot higher resolution than what they're shown on the Home screen and the OS needs to intuitively limit the number of open apps to much less than the 16 that fit on the screen at once.
I imagine that an Exposé UI on iPhone will have the screen display up to 4 icons rather than 16. This will visually distinguish Exposé from the Home screen and intuitively demonstrate the limit of apps allowed open at once.
Regarding which apps should be allowed to run in the background, as much as I don't like stifle the creativity of developers, sometimes you need to force them think out of the box. Push notifications did that really well. I hope that Apple maintains Push notifications for most "background" uses that Push handle well and allows developers to request that their App be allowed to run in the background if it could be done better through Expose.
App icons are a lot higher resolution than what they're shown on the Home screen and the OS needs to intuitively limit the number of open apps to much less than the 16 that fit on the screen at once.
I imagine that an Exposé UI on iPhone will have the screen display up to 4 icons rather than 16. This will visually distinguish Exposé from the Home screen and intuitively demonstrate the limit of apps allowed open at once.
Regarding which apps should be allowed to run in the background, as much as I don't like stifle the creativity of developers, sometimes you need to force them think out of the box. Push notifications did that really well. I hope that Apple maintains Push notifications for most "background" uses that Push handle well and allows developers to request that their App be allowed to run in the background if it could be done better through Expose.
Only in some instances. Plenty of such usage will be for static apps, just so people don't have to wait for reloading when flipping back and forth. For people that "need" 17 different connectivity/networking apps actively doing something at once...well, maybe battery problems would help them in finding a clue.
Good news but... Double clicking the home button? I'm too used to see the iPod controller pop up 😛
Access
as to how you will activate exposé on the iPhone OS, if there is a major hardware redesign, i would hope that the patent they filed for touch responsive bezel would be included. that would be awesome.
as to how you will activate exposé on the iPhone OS, if there is a major hardware redesign, i would hope that the patent they filed for touch responsive bezel would be included. that would be awesome.
kas23
macrumors 603
Or, just finally be done with it and move on to something like the HTC 4G EVO.
We say this each and everytime. We're gonna get "blown away". However, it hasn't happened with any iPhone update nor the iPad.
Lets face it, 3.x is behind the times already. Apple needs these features to catch back up:
-Multitasking: Not some half-assed Apple approach where the state of the application is saved like MS is doing with WM7, but true multitasking.
-Openness: I should be able to download an application outside of iTunes, after a warning dialog that tells me about the risk.
-The "sandbox" should be opened up a little. Applications should be allowed to launch on boot and run in the background. One of my favorite applications on Android is Mobile Defense. Its better than .ME at phone tracking and free (.ME is crap, it should be a free service). Applications should be allowed access to other applications and to the phone's core services like SMS. I'd love to be able to download an application that hides incoming SMS from specific contacts for example, or an app that forwards the day's SMS conversations to an email box at 2am.
-The notification system just doesn't exist on the iPhone. I'd say it needs an overhaul but I don't even believe it exists so they need to build one. An intrusive popup is not a notification system.
-Multitasking: Not some half-assed Apple approach where the state of the application is saved like MS is doing with WM7, but true multitasking.
-Openness: I should be able to download an application outside of iTunes, after a warning dialog that tells me about the risk.
-The "sandbox" should be opened up a little. Applications should be allowed to launch on boot and run in the background. One of my favorite applications on Android is Mobile Defense. Its better than .ME at phone tracking and free (.ME is crap, it should be a free service). Applications should be allowed access to other applications and to the phone's core services like SMS. I'd love to be able to download an application that hides incoming SMS from specific contacts for example, or an app that forwards the day's SMS conversations to an email box at 2am.
-The notification system just doesn't exist on the iPhone. I'd say it needs an overhaul but I don't even believe it exists so they need to build one. An intrusive popup is not a notification system.
Yep. For multi-tasking- what are we really talking about here? Continued audio streaming? Simple text alerts and fast-app switching, right? It's not like anything on the iPhone/iPad needs to do any actual background crunching... perhaps some upload/download, which it's already capable of.
My prediction;
Apple's going to release some API's which developers will have to take advantage of to use "multitasking" on Apple's terms. Individual solutions for different process to happen that give the impression of multitasking rather then allowing developers to eat up cycles.
The Home button does seem to be over used. Maybe put an Expose icon on the home screen. Tap it to show all running App icons. Put a Quit button on the open apps page.....tap Quit > tap App icon you want to close. Presto.
distortedloop
macrumors 6502
Yes, there are two of them, in fact. One's free, and the other's from some high school kid and costs like $5. The high school kid hit the phone first, but the free one works better, at least at the time I tried both.
Probably, and that's the metaphor most use. It sounded more like the HTC Desire's SenseUI (Android) "helicopter view" for switching between stuff to me, though.
iPod
I already have my iPod controls come up when I double click the home button. And accessibility comes up with three clicks. How about four clicks brings up expose?
I already have my iPod controls come up when I double click the home button. And accessibility comes up with three clicks. How about four clicks brings up expose?
