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But what about copy paste,push notifications, universal search and landscape everything?
Shouldn't they be announcing a preview event soon? It's amazing that apple can generate so much hype around things that should have been available years ago.
Really? So you'll close your apps and open them again just because you're too stubborn to admit multi-tasking has its advantages?
Let me guess, because you said you don't need copy & paste when the first iPhone didn't support it, you're still writing things down on paper?
I hope they get it right, because battery life sucks as it is already.
Should be good upgrade from 3G!
There really isn't much to be worried about in terms of battery. Its not like someone is going to force you to run multiple apps. Those of us who are conscious of the fact that running apps will use battery (and I would think anyone posting here would be) would simply use multi-tasking as necessary within the limits of the battery.
Although annoying for all involved, I think it was a good thing that the notifications thing came long before (assuming this rumor is true) multitasking does. That way there is a viable alternative to running a million apps in the background. Hopefully apps that need to listen for updates will use notifications and others that really require multitasking (like say Pandora) will run in the background.
Problem is the term "multitasking" does not have sufficient resolution to discern "tiny and relevant background operation" (a la Skype being able to detect incoming calls while another app is running) vs. "wasting inane amounts of cycles for self-important activity not in the user's best interests" (a la always downloading & buffering video ads to thrust upon the user at the earliest opportunity). There is no way, either via OS or user's choice, to throttle/manage background tasks on this easily overloaded platform.
Well, if I load an app it may decide itself to run in the background, sucking cycles & space & power, and I may not know which app is guilty of wrecking my "user experience". On the desktop I run into too many apps which insist on background activity when it's not appropriate or wanted; that's tolerable on a 3GB RAM 3GHz quad-core platform, but not on a machine barely bigger than a credit card.
Yep. I skipped the 3GS also... still with a 3G. My wife is still using my old 2.5G (we live in the sticks, 3G isn't an issue). The only reason I upgraded in the first place was for GPS. 3GS added nothing of value for me.
Now the 4G? Faster, more memory, hopefully video chat (not seeming that likely given the lack of it in the iPad), multitasking... I'll buy that.
Apple wouldn't prevent the most recent generation from gaining new features that do not require new hardware, and multitasking won't require new hardware. (Note that while some of the features you mentioned were omitted from the 3G, Apple's implementation of them did use new hardware, even though they could have written them to not use new hardware, though possibly they would have been inferior implementations).
Of course, anything is possible, but if 4.0 adds multitasking you should expect to see multitasking operational on at least the 3GS and probably the 3G as well.
same with, I've never missed that feature and I don't see why I would use such feature in futur.
That's a very worrying statement, given the iPhone OS development team appear to have done sod all for the last nine months.
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Yawn. Just jailbreak and get Backgrounder and pro-switcher. I really wonder what kind of AMAZING additions apple would have to include with 4.0 to make me want to un-jailbreak and go stock.
Here's a crazy idea of how mutitasking will work:
Hold down the home button and swipe to go between screens
This is how it will be down
Hold down the home button and swipe to go between screens
This is how it will be down
Will MT run on a 3g and 3gs? Yeah, probably. Will it run well?
That's another story. . .
I would guess that the current model phones don't have the horsepower to do it comfortably, and would also guess that a new iPad related chip, running in a 4.0 phone, will work just fine.
This also likely signals the ability of the iPad to multitask.
i hope this is true
it would be nice not having to exit an app everytime I receive a text/phone call, especially while playing games. I would even settle for a quickreply feature like those offered in the jailbreak community.
Its pretty annoying having to choose between losing the progress of your game or waiting to respond to communication. being the worlds"most advanced smart phone" i should be able to communicate while doing other tasks LOL
it would be nice not having to exit an app everytime I receive a text/phone call, especially while playing games. I would even settle for a quickreply feature like those offered in the jailbreak community.
Its pretty annoying having to choose between losing the progress of your game or waiting to respond to communication. being the worlds"most advanced smart phone" i should be able to communicate while doing other tasks LOL
The main problem with iPhone, not a lack/presence of something, but the total control from Apple, even when you use it. People who are not comfortable with this idea will never buy iGadgets.
Wonder how they implemented it? We must be near to a preview event for 4.0. Perhaps just after or around the iPad launch.
Real multitasking means two things to most peoplewhich achieved WITHOUT real multitasking:
1. Background audio (Pandora)
1. Fast switching between apps (or windows)
(Actually it means more than that, like the ability to get IMs when youre in another app. But the iPhone already does those things. Push is a great, efficient solution. The UI for it could stand to evolve though.)
Id love to see an Apple API for #1. The full Pandora wouldnt be running at all times, but an audio stream would be incoming. The API should allow a double-click on the home button to being up a custom control panel for ANY audio, not just the iPodand the panel should allow an ad, so that Pandora can still pay for itself.
#2 is a two-edged sword, since running too many things at once bogs DOWN your device. Some UI tweaks and OS magic to make apps launch faster (dump them to the flash drive to sleep them?) could help that without the wast involved in real multitasking.. And the ever-faster hardware in iDevices.
If this rumor turns out to mean actually keeping a bunch of apps RUNNING at the same time in the traditional sense, then I think it may be a 4.0 feature for iPads ONLY (and/or for FUTURE iPhones that are more powerful than todays).
1. Background audio (Pandora)
1. Fast switching between apps (or windows)
(Actually it means more than that, like the ability to get IMs when youre in another app. But the iPhone already does those things. Push is a great, efficient solution. The UI for it could stand to evolve though.)
Id love to see an Apple API for #1. The full Pandora wouldnt be running at all times, but an audio stream would be incoming. The API should allow a double-click on the home button to being up a custom control panel for ANY audio, not just the iPodand the panel should allow an ad, so that Pandora can still pay for itself.
#2 is a two-edged sword, since running too many things at once bogs DOWN your device. Some UI tweaks and OS magic to make apps launch faster (dump them to the flash drive to sleep them?) could help that without the wast involved in real multitasking.. And the ever-faster hardware in iDevices.
If this rumor turns out to mean actually keeping a bunch of apps RUNNING at the same time in the traditional sense, then I think it may be a 4.0 feature for iPads ONLY (and/or for FUTURE iPhones that are more powerful than todays).
I got rid of my Blackberry Storm last October to get an iPhone 3GS mainly for one reason: the multi-tasking on it was awful. No matter how many times you obsessively checked to see which apps were running and closed everything you weren't using, there was always SOMETHING running in the background. It got to the point where at least once a day I couldn't even send or receive a phone call because the OS was so bogged down.
If my iPhone gets multi-tasking the only feature I want is the ability to TURN IT OFF.
If my iPhone gets multi-tasking the only feature I want is the ability to TURN IT OFF.
Really? So you'll close your apps and open them again just because you're too stubborn to admit multi-tasking has its advantages?
Let me guess, because you said you don't need copy & paste when the first iPhone didn't support it, you're still writing things down on paper?
I can count the number of times that I've used copy and paste on the iphone on one hand. Mostly used it because it was a novelty. Only a couple of times was it what I would consider anything like a necessity.
So are you so stubborn that you don't realize that not everyone has the same usage patterns as you do? Or do you just represent everyone with your views?