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Palm Pre Vs. iPhone
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Nope. I'm too sexy for your cat, to sexy for your hat and too sexy for your phone. Time to do my little turn on the catwalk.
What? Defensive? Maybe you are Scientologistically inclined.... (big... fake word)
My question though... is what in the 8th dynamic's (Scientology's concept of God's) name are you doing in an iPhone forum on a website dedicated to Apple rumors, and news? Go to some Scientology forum and talk about spirits and glowing souls.
I can do a response and i'm not the author of the sentence ehe. WebOS is light years ahead of iphone OS.
IF you recall some common sense, there's no trickery behind offer u an App-Store - just think of it as a webpage "with some special privileges" that you can download some thing (obviously this is a 6-year old metaphor). So, if apple can do, others can too.
What matters: WebOS. It is light-years ahead because brings you the connectivity of internet to the mobile not only the sporadic access
iPhone sacrifies connectivity, because you aren't allow to multitask. ex: So you are in the middle of a IM session and a friend sent you an email. U heard the buzz, close the IM and open mail, check, then you have to go back to start the IM session to tell you friend that you received the thing. That isn't connectivity.
Even with push notifications, the desktop-class internet connectivity isn't real, is a lost cause.
Now, you heard the last news on Pré? You got some first-class sit with internet connectivity. I dare to say that the light-ahead slogan is a desperately try to light up some of the shadow
More, the app-store model will come to many devices as possible. So iPhone will eventualy loss the market, seeing that >60% of app-store is games, and sony is taking it with the psp go.
Geeez, this rumor of iPhone cannot Multi-task is getting old. I guess when I play games like NFSU and playing my favorite track on the iPod portion, while MobileMe keeps me in sync and receives email, SMS.... oh wait, the iPhone can't multi-task.
Geeez, this rumor of iPhone cannot Multi-task is getting old. I guess when I play games like NFSU and playing my favorite track on the iPod portion, while MobileMe keeps me in sync and receives email, SMS.... oh wait, the iPhone can't multi-task.
The iPhone can't multitask with third-party programs. Better?
Are you really trying to argue the iPhone does TRUE multitasking?
My Palm 755p played music while I was playing a game...but it most certianly could not multi-task.
In fact, Apple went out of the way to state they thought background apps drained the battery too fast and they weren't going to implement it in the iPhone.
Yet you are here arguing the iPhone Multitasks?
Come on....its the biggest complaint (next to AT&T)
Your arguing. I just proved it to you. So you can stop saying the iPhone cannot/does not/incapable of multitasking.
if you dont understand what multitasking is, go check out wikipedia.
is there any definition of multitasking said that you have to multitasking "these softwares" but not "all softwares"?
legal note: iPhone's multitasking is limited on software #1, software #2 and software #3, multitasking does not allow you run any other programs.
legal note#2: apple has the right to redefine what "multitasking" is, if anybody were to sue, apple takes no responsibility for distorting the definition, its all fanboys' fault.
Geeez, this rumor of iPhone cannot Multi-task is getting old. I guess when I play games like NFSU and playing my favorite track on the iPod portion, while MobileMe keeps me in sync and receives email, SMS.... oh wait, the iPhone can't multi-task.
It can, but in a limited fashion. Some Apple apps can multi-task (in the case of the iPhone), and the MobileMe provides push services.
But how about being reading an article on a website, needing to quickly switch to put in a calendar event, then go back to the website? On the iPhone that takes a while. It might be the same number of button presses, but the iPhone has to save its state, switch the app, and then reload the state when the new app is open. In fact, if you're loading a big webpage you can switch out of it on the Pre and it will continue loading in the background. No need to re-cache it.
When people refer to multi-tasking on the Pre, they mean the whole quality of the Pre allowing the USER to select what apps he or she has open in the background, not what Apple thinks should work in the background. You should know that. Everyone knows the iPhone can do limited multi-tasking...
User cannot multitasking (connectivity context) in iPhone (by default Apple setup).
If you want to digg more on multitasking and processor context switching, matters of computer science, try some books of tauenbaum as introduction.
Much better. You see there are these running around saying it cannot... period. Say limited multitasking, your correct. Much better. But to run around with a flag screaming "cannot", then your wrong.
I don't need to, I just know what it is. I'm just tired of seeing these incorrect statements declaring it as an absolute rule.
and you think 3 apple app "limited multitasking" can hold a candle in front of deksto-level multitasking of the Pre?
not a chance.
not to mention, limited multitasking, is not even close to what WM or BB offers. its the lowest of the lowest class.
Cause we are talking about true multi-tasking.
Not gimped.
But if it makes you feel better:
"Yes the iPhone can do gimped multitasking."
Don't try to compare the multitasking to the Pre however.
I never did. I'm correcting the BS that you and your cohorts are spouting all over the net.
only BS is how apple poisoned people and made up definitions for themselves.
go find a definition in any dictionary says specifically running 3 specific apps: MM, iPod music player and a game is itself defined as multitasking.
What are you talking about?
OF COURSE the iPhone can play MP3's while doing other things.
Thats not a big deal...ALL phones can listen to mp3's while in another application.
No one is spreading anything...you are paranoid.
The fact is....
iPhone "multitasking" = weak
BB, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android multitasking = Good
Palm Pre multitasking = great
There is no other fact to argue....multitasking needs to be addressed next year...and not just with push notifications.
defeating computer terms so badly outside a computer-science forum is risky. "Apple is closing 3rd apps when you touch the button" or "iPhone only runs 3rd party at once" are better expressions to what we call "iphone don't multitask". However that multitask thing, works.
If you want to know what multitask is, read some on schedulling and context switching.
Even in internet, semantics matter.