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Multi tasking has its disadvantages, gives you a heart attack when you are remembered you have 6 programs open

I sort of understand that multitasking is not as important as on the pc, but it is very handy when you are in the train. Open up the special train schedule app, while the GPS fixes your location you have just enough time to navigate to u2start. Instead of waiting before loading is finished you can go back to the schedule.

This all while you've paused your favourite tv show in the media player.

But it is a battery killer if you forget to close the apps while the phone is in your pocket.

RememberEveryMoment

15 years

Originally posted by jofice:[..]

Yeh I noticed it's basically just a quicker way of switching apps. Wow thanks Apple for saving me two seconds

it's not that. For example I have a radio-app, I can now keep listening to that station while checking twitter.

drewhiggins

15 years

Originally posted by dieder:[..]

it's not that. For example I have a radio-app, I can now keep listening to that station while checking twitter.

I guess it could be called app backgrounding more so than multitasking then. I'm updating to 4.0 right now...

Risto

15 years

Think the radio app probably is an interface for some native iOS API. Anyway it works, but it didnt for many years.

drewhiggins

15 years

Originally posted by Risto:Think the radio app probably is an interface for some native iOS API. Anyway it works, but it didnt for many years.

I read about it but not sure whether it'll make it into anything and there's loads of other undocumented APIs that could be some real fun. I'm sure if the hardware is there someone'll get it going without Apple. After all, they got Bluetooth file sending working on it unofficially...which is quite something.

Risto

15 years

They were just too lazy to implement the full bluetooth specs. But it sounds good if you launch a 'feature' years later

drewhiggins

15 years

Originally posted by Risto:They were just too lazy to implement the full bluetooth specs. But it sounds good if you launch a 'feature' years later

I want my copy and paste. Can you believe how long that took them to put copy and freakin' paste on it?

And then at the video of it being unveiled (yes, they actually introduced it as a major feature due to security concerns!) the attendees actually stood up and cheered. No word on whether they cheered due to the fact Apple decided to copy and paste something so painfully simple in there, or just fooled that it was the first phone in the world to have copy and paste.

How, I want to know, is copy and paste a security concern? You copy the word from a webpage, add security restrictions to block sensitive info like HTTPS fields and add it in. How bloody hard can that be? Oh well, it's there but not the point...'cos it's Apple's OS, they add things when they feel like it and not even doing it right.

Look at the dropping reception issue...a software issue my arse. More like cheap hardware that clearly doesn't work.

RememberEveryMoment

15 years

Originally posted by Risto:Think the radio app probably is an interface for some native iOS API. Anyway it works, but it didnt for many years.

nope, it's a normal app from a dutch station. They actually have put some FM hardware in the device, but they haven't 'unlocked' it yet.

jofice

15 years

Originally posted by dieder:[..]

nope, it's a normal app from a dutch station. They actually have put some FM hardware in the device, but they haven't 'unlocked' it yet.

You're saying there's a radio in my iPod and I can't use it?

RememberEveryMoment

15 years

Originally posted by jofice:[..]

You're saying there's a radio in my iPod and I can't use it?

yeppers.

Risto

15 years

I mean that the app calls an API like:

MediaPlayer->playFromUrl('http://www.radio538.nl');

Nobody makes their own playback system

That doesnt mean it looks like a different app. Same on Windows, most programs just link components together in a specific way.

drewhiggins

15 years

Originally posted by jofice:[..]

You're saying there's a radio in my iPod and I can't use it?

There is, but it likely can't be accessed until some hacker gets in it and gets it going. Then Apple will get on to it and charge you to get it going.

Need some help too. How do you get Folders on OS4 and how the hell does the microphone feature work?

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