Apple announce iPhone 4.0 OS, Really excited it comes with multitasking

prowla

The underlying OS (UNIX) is inherently multitasking - I was actually more surprised by the announcement to find that it didn't already do it.

truthman007

prowla wrote: »

The underlying OS (UNIX) is inherently multitasking - I was actually more surprised by the announcement to find that it didn't already do it.

There were no competitions before, Apple never botherd about customers, now realised and add the features which were hidden behind the door.

Get more money out of customer in every year just by adding one feature at a time.

Still there are many hidden, but Apple wont release until it gets proper competition from competitors.

robt_2

prowla wrote: »

The underlying OS (UNIX) is inherently multitasking - I was actually more surprised by the announcement to find that it didn't already do it.

It does, it just doesn't have 3rd party multi-tasking right now, although there are many workarounds, eg I can close Facebook or MSN apps and still receive notifications to my phone about messages etc. When I get a notification I can dismiss it or load it, which would load the relevant app, closing the current app (if any). All that will be different is not having to close the existing app first.

Of course apps which play music (other than the iPod) will benefit from this as they will be able to be used whilst the user is emailing or playing a game or whatever.

Fire_Fox

It would be much more informative for the non-Techies/ newbies to smartphones to read a discussion about which brand or OS is best for which tasks, instead of "my phone is better than your phone" type posts! Having read a few of the many online reviews it seems to me each has its strengths and weaknesses, have any of you regularly used both Apple and Android products?

I purchased my 3GS as a glorified iPod. I am a fitness instructor so the built in Nike+ and rumours of compatible heart rate monitors swayed me! I am delighted with it as it's designed for simpletons, I am using far more features simply because I am able to work out how.

Downsides to the iPhone are that iTunes is rubbish, keeps crashing and nightmare to navigate unless you know exactly what you are looking for. App store needs a serious cull and more categories, I can't be bothered to look through 189 pages. Second downside is not being able to sync wirelessly which just seems a bit behind the times ... :huh:

Feel free to persuade me to defect to an Android (or other smartphone) in eighteen months or so, but please not solely through asides about the iPhone as it reminds me of politicians! :rotfl:

poppy10_2

Wow, copy&pasting and now multitasking! With these 1998 features Apple is really spoiling us!

Seriously, though, I thought the lack of multitasking on iPhone was supposed to be a feature, not a bug? All the Apple apologists repeatedly told us how awful multitasking was and how Apple was achieving zen by not enabling multitasking for their devices. Now that the great Jobs has changes his mind they are performing amazing acrobatics trying to flip-flop on their original position.

Fifer

Will the new iPhone have a memory card slot?

nsabournemouth

Nope but when it does get one it will be amazing i'm sure!

Scrilla

poppy10 wrote: »

Seriously, though, I thought the lack of multitasking on iPhone was supposed to be a feature, not a bug? All the Apple apologists repeatedly told us how awful multitasking was and how Apple was achieving zen by not enabling multitasking for their devices. Now that the great Jobs has changes his mind they are performing amazing acrobatics trying to flip-flop on their original position.

Oh dear, I don't buy the Zen thing at all - sounds like "Yankee group" making excuses for Apple where excuses didn't need to be made. If current iPhone OS 4 is to go by, then it may have been because the old iPhones couldn't handle multitasking (hence why only the 3GS and iPad can multitask when OS4 arrives).

If I'm being objective, then from a dev's POV, multitasking is a difficult thing to implement. Perhaps they wanted to get other functions out there first - multitasking is useless (as is copy and paste) if nothing else works. Of course, if Android could do it, no reason why Apple couldn't have done it earlier. Why MS is only implementing "limited" multitasking on their mobile OS is beyond me.

Fire_Fox wrote: »

It would be much more informative for the non-Techies/ newbies to smartphones to read a discussion about which brand or OS is best for which tasks, instead of "my phone is better than your phone" type posts! Having read a few of the many online reviews it seems to me each has its strengths and weaknesses, have any of you regularly used both Apple and Android products?

Some reasonably impartial links:
http://dailycontributor.com/smartphone-comparison-chart/10313/
http://qip.ro/iphone-os-4-vs-android-2-1-vs-windows-phone-7/

Marty_J

poppy10 wrote: »

Wow, copy&pasting and now multitasking! With these 1998 features Apple is really spoiling us!

Seriously, though, I thought the lack of multitasking on iPhone was supposed to be a feature, not a bug? All the Apple apologists repeatedly told us how awful multitasking was and how Apple was achieving zen by not enabling multitasking for their devices. Now that the great Jobs has changes his mind they are performing amazing acrobatics trying to flip-flop on their original position.

I always understood that the lack of multitasking was because it seriously reduced both performance and battery life.

Apple claim their implementation of multitasking doesn't adversely affect either of those two things, which is why they're releasing it.

23n1th

Cos if it did effect the battery the device would be unusable as the battery pretty much runs down every day as it is.