What the iOS 4 On The iPad Be Like?

[EthanNixon]

They can optimise the application: Safari; however, they cannot optimise webpqges for example:

iPad, by default(no apps running)150mb RAM

Then launch Safari and open MR - 100 left

Open more tabs - let's say evey tab is 50mb then you open 3 tabs then the RAM will go to 0 in which the iPad crashes. So Apple flushes one of the tabs to spare RAM. Unless Apple uses Virtual Memory then this will keep happening.

If they optimize Safari, you can have more than your heart desires in open pages. It will be a lot like their multitasking, saved states for most applications.

Save the current state of a webpage, condense it down, then when triggered expand it to the full version. Apple isn't going to release an update just to optimize Safari, they will group it with a bigger update.

 

[Nishi100]

If they optimize Safari, you can have more than your heart desires in open pages. It will be a lot like their multitasking, saved states for most applications.

Save the current state of a webpage, condense it down, then when triggered expand it to the full version. Apple isn't going to release an update just to optimize Safari, they will group it with a bigger update.

Never heard if that before; however, they haven't implemented in iPod touches or iPhone because I still have the refreshing problem on my touch 3gen.

 

[iThinman]

If they optimize Safari, you can have more than your heart desires in open pages. It will be a lot like their multitasking, saved states for most applications.

Save the current state of a webpage, condense it down, then when triggered expand it to the full version. Apple isn't going to release an update just to optimize Safari, they will group it with a bigger update.

That's not multitasking, which is why it has to be prefaced with 'their'.

They can call it anything they want, but saving states is not multitasking, it's....suspenditasking.

They can save that for the phones as far as I'm concerned.

 

[EthanNixon]

That's not multitasking, which is why it has to be prefaced with 'their'.

They can call it anything they want, but saving states is not multitasking, it's....suspenditasking.

They can save that for the phones as far as I'm concerned.

That is why I put "their" in front of it, I could have put quotations perhaps to separate it.

Apple's "multitasking" uses what Linux has been doing for years, selectively running background applications and suspending the rest of them. The same can be done for Safari, and it's not that hard to do. If they want to fix it, they will. That is how Apple is. There is no need to worry about something like this.

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

Obviously it will be like OS 4 on the iPhone, but I'm hopeful they'll optimize better for the iPad by dealing with the memory issues, occasional Safari crashing, and make some other iPad-specific improvements. Only time will tell. Right now, no one knows zip about OS4 on the iPad.

Looking forward to the many features that iOS 4 on the iPhone 4 has on the iPad. Like you I hope memory issues are addressed. As someone mentioned a virtual memory to store web pages would be nice.

Hope that by the time iOS4 reaches the iPad that Apple addresses a small bug in the Mail app that allows for the likes of MR Forum emails to be threaded as they are on my OSX Mail app. Also hope that at least for the iPad that they will give the Photo app the ability to create separate albums or events on the iPad itself with the images that are already loaded there.

The others are more wishful thinking more than anything else. The ability to use the Camera Connector Kit as a dongle to print to a USB printer. I know there are apps out there that allow for wifi printing, but my job site is not wifi. So being able to print directly would be nice. The other being a file management solution.

 

[saberahul]

I think its high time we get the update. I'm sick of waiting for them to release it and I'm losing my patience now. The thing I want badly is multitasking so that I can finally stay on Skype (I talk for about 7 hours on it a day) and do other work without having to sit for the battery to charge due to the long Skype conversations.

 

[EthanNixon]

I think its high time we get the update. I'm sick of waiting for them to release it and I'm losing my patience now. The thing I want badly is multitasking so that I can finally stay on Skype (I talk for about 7 hours on it a day) and do other work without having to sit for the battery to charge due to the long Skype conversations.

It will come out the latest it possibly could. Until then I guess you could buy another tablet.

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

I think its high time we get the update. I'm sick of waiting for them to release it and I'm losing my patience now. The thing I want badly is multitasking so that I can finally stay on Skype (I talk for about 7 hours on it a day) and do other work without having to sit for the battery to charge due to the long Skype conversations.

My thinking is that the iOS4 update to the Ipad is taking time in order to get it right and add features that make sense...

 

[PCClone]

Like the iPhone 4 but without a phone. Can we now close another useless and repeated thread?

Will be the best post in this thread.

 

[Ciclismo]

What iOS4 will be like? Like wearing a brand new pair of comfy sport shoes with a pair of new gym socks on a comfy summer's eve as a gentle breeze blows through your hair whilst you sit with loved ones in you garden sipping on a cold beer after a successful BBQ.

 

[macwheels]

...Also hope that at least for the iPad that they will give the Photo app the ability to create separate albums or events on the iPad itself with the images that are already loaded there.

--YES - - me too, hoping & waiting for this since the iPad was launched! I really hate having to spend a lot of time syncing to computer, importing photos from iPad to iPhoto, creating new albums there, RE-importing the, back to iPad, etc. etc. -- especially since all of this could be so easily done on the iPad. We already are able to select individual images in the Camera roll with little check marks, and copy them to iPad's clipboard; so it really would not take much to offer the further ability to create a new album ON the iPad & copy the images there.

PLEASE, Apple! (Yes, I have already submitted this feedback to Apple, months ago, by phone during a conversation with a Product Specialist).

If anyone here likes this idea & would be willing to submit it to Apple as a feature request, here's a link at apple.com where you can do so:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Thanks for reading!

 

[Dr McKay]

Hopefully what took them so long to release 4.2 was them perfecting it to work on the iPad (pretty) flawlessly.

 

[Coukos34]

256gb of ram would be way more than possible.

256mb of ram is more than sufficient for a mobile device to multitask if done properly.

Using it now, and you are wrong. It works, but not like the iphone 4.....dissapointing the mistake that apple made, giving the iphone twice the ram as the ipad.