Who in here said the iPhone could not multitask AT ALL?
No one, that's who.
Lord.
Right. Look I can do that too while multitasking and running background apps.
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Multitasking on the iPhone
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Right. Look I can do that too while multitasking and running background apps.
And?Right. Look I can do that too while multitasking and running background apps.
Again, when someone blatantly lies, I feel compelled to use the roll eyes icon.
Blatantly lies? Evrything what I posted regarding voice is true. Not a lie. I can switch into voice record without hitting the home button. Geez you're dense.
Now quote me a post where someone said this is not possible.LOL. Still at it eh. Well hold on I guess I'm imagining things as voice recording is running right now as I'm typing this message here. That's not possible according to some of you.
Yes, I said you lied.
Cuz ya did.
No one said it's not possible.
Problem is, you confuse us saying the iPhone can't fully multitask with the iPhone not being able to multitask at all.
What are you talking about???
Here is what you said a few posts ago, verbatim, via copy and paste:
Again, where did ANYONE IN THIS THREAD say that you couldn't voice record while surfing the web? That is what you imply when you say "That's not possible according to some of you."
The answer is NO WHERE.
That makes that statement a LIE. Duh.
For crying out loud, get over it. You lied. I called you on it. Move on.
Everyone knows the iPhone can multitask on a few apps that Apple has deemed fit to multitask with. Where has anyone denied that in this thread?
The answer, again, is NO WHERE.
Good grief...
Here is what you said a few posts ago, verbatim, via copy and paste:
Again, where did ANYONE IN THIS THREAD say that you couldn't voice record while surfing the web? That is what you imply when you say "That's not possible according to some of you."
The answer is NO WHERE.
That makes that statement a LIE. Duh.
For crying out loud, get over it. You lied. I called you on it. Move on.
Everyone knows the iPhone can multitask on a few apps that Apple has deemed fit to multitask with. Where has anyone denied that in this thread?
The answer, again, is NO WHERE.
Good grief...
Wrong. I've proved that iPhone can Multitask, iPhone can do background task. You and your cohorts are the ones that do not understand that the iPhone "can" do these things. Good grief.
You didn't need to prove it. Everyone already knows that and no one said that it couldn't multitask AT ALL.
Really?You and your cohorts are the ones that do not understand that the iPhone "can" do these things. Good grief.
I don't understand that the iPhone "can" do these things??
Really?
Looks like I know exactly what the phone can and can not do to me.
You are just arguing, and lying, for the sake of it now.
Stop while you are only slightly behind.
The iPhone "can" multitasking, the iPhone "can" run apps in the background. I've proven it already for you with the Voice Memo as an example.
The iPhone "can" multitask, the iPhone "can" run apps in the background. It's as simple as that, and you don't have the capacity to understand the most simple explanation.
Good grief. LOL
The iPhone "can" multitask, the iPhone "can" run apps in the background. It's as simple as that, and you don't have the capacity to understand the most simple explanation.
Good grief. LOL
This is the technical definition of multitasking. I have never denied this. Now we are all playing a game of "symantics." I think you guys really know what we are talking about. However, since you guys are not willing to budge, please pray tell, what word would you like to use to describe the PROCESS OF SWITCHING BETWEEN APPLICATIONS or TASKS?
Because AGAIN, the iPhone DOES NOT HAVE A METAPHOR FOR THIS. It's quit/home button, move to another app. That's it. So, everyone, what word would you like to use since the word "multitasking" is bothering you guys so much?
Please, enlighten us.
w00master
The iPhone "can" multitasking, the iPhone "can" run apps in the background. I've proven it already for you with the Voice Memo as an example.
The iPhone "can" multitask, the iPhone "can" run apps in the background. It's as simple as that, and you don't have the capacity to understand the most simple explanation.
Good grief. LOL
Show me again, how to move from two (or more applications or tasks) without hitting the home button.
Again, show me.
Show me how to open more than one email at a time, go to safari, to SMS, and back to email #2 without quitting a single application? Note: all of these apps RUN IN BACKGROUND.
w00master
Wrong definition. The iPhone can multitasking, th iPhone can run background processes. It's doing it constantly. It complies to the definition, just not your own or what you wish it to be.
As I mentioned in a previous post, fine... I'm willing to "let the word multitasking go," so please pray tell, what word would you like to use then? Because apparently you guys like to play this game of symantics, what's the word thunderbird?
w00master
No need. The iPhone "can" "Multitask", the iphone "can" run "Background" processes. Done.
So I can open up more than one email at a time, quickly switch to SMS, then back to Email #3 all without quitting?
Please, tell me how to do this oh great one?
Btw, what would you call that? hmmm? ApplicationSuperMultitasking? I'm still waiting on what you guys wanna call this since you don't like us using the word "multitasking."
I thoroughly love (sarcasm on) how you avoid answering any of my questions. Love it!
w00master
Thanks Captain Obvious.
You didn't prove anything to me. I already knew that.
Thanks Captain Obvious.l
Liar.
LOL.
You really don't get it do you?
Or, are you just doing this knowing you are inciting an argument?
When the iPhone can run Pandora, Flight Control and Mail.app at one time, THEN it will be a true multi-processing device.
Until then, we are just hamstrung by what Apple wants.
Don't waste your tom w00master.So I can open up more than one email at a time, quickly switch to SMS, then back to Email #3 all without quitting?
Please, tell me how to do this oh great one?
Btw, what would you call that? hmmm? ApplicationSuperMultitasking?
I thoroughly love (sarcasm on) how you avoid answering any of my questions. Love it!
w00master
Either this guy is about 11 years old, or a mental midget, or is just trying to keep this thread going for no reason.
Regardless of which is true, it isn't worth your time.
Roll your virtual eyes all you want. Yor trying to enforce your definition. Doesn't work that way. The iPhone "can" "Multitask", the iphone "can" run "Background" processes. Falls within that definition.
So again, show me how I can do the following:
1. Open up 3 email messages
2. Switch to SMS *without* hitting the home button
3. Send an SMS
4. Switch to Safari *without*hitting the home button
5. Switch back to email #2 *without* hitting the home button.
I call this multitasking, you call it something else. So... what do you call this?
Also, since you claim the iphone can do this, please... enlighten us all?
Again, you continue to avoid answering any of my questions. Why is that?
w00master
I call it THE single reason why the Pre can even be mentioned in the same breath as an iPhone.
Because if the iPhone could do this, there would be NO competition for it on the market.
LOL.
Our own belief?
Well, yea..
And Engadget's belief.
And Gizmodo's belief.
And Mobility Site's belief.
And pretty much any sane human with rational thinking's belief.
But keep repeating the same thing dude. You have obviously gotten destroyed in this argument. Why now bow out gracefully instead of acting like a juvenile?
Yes you are, you do it every day on the Mac. What do you call the process between switching apps that are open simultaneously?
That's what we are talking about, and apparently you have a problem with the layperson's definition of "Multitasking." Heck, that's what I call it. What do you call it then? Do you call it: The Process between switching apps that are open simultaneously?
We've ALREADY established that the iPhone can do Background Tasks. We do not deny this at all, *never* have. However, I am looking for in the future to be able to rapidly move between apps without closing them. Just like we can do on the Mac/Windows/Linux. Just like the Pre can do. If you TRULY believe that iPhone will *never* be able to do this then:
1.) That's sad b/c then the iPhone would be dead.
2.) Extremely shortsighted of you.
w00master
But it can not run background processes if those applications are not developed by Apple. Other phones, which WE call full multi-tasking, can run any app you choose in the background, not Apple's set of predetermined ones. Easy. We all know the iPhone CAN multi-task and it CAN do background processes, it just can't do it for every program the user has on the phone.
It doesn't?
Funny.
Gizmodo seems to think you are wrong. So, will a laymen take the word of some poster on a forum named "Slappy" or "Rat-Boy"??
Nah, probably not.
Will they take the word of Gizmodo?
You bet.
I don't Think apple will introduce a task switcher ala pre, per se - but I suspect as new models are introduced with more memory, I believe X number of your most recent apps will stay running. So you'll still have have to press home, but swapping between 3 or 4 apps (in addition to the stock apple stuff) will require no loading or state-saving or anything.
The iPhone has its OS paradigm in place, for better or worse, and I just don't see it changing any time soon.
The iPhone has its OS paradigm in place, for better or worse, and I just don't see it changing any time soon.
This is why I liked the idea someone else posted about having the phone go into a cover flow like display of running apps when you turn the phone to landscape while on any home screen.
I think that would work and be a very good implementation.