Apple to Finally Add Multitasking to the iPhone
Apple to Finally Add Multitasking to the iPhone
Posted 03/11/2010 at 12:30pm
| by Bart Salisbury
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See what you can accomplish if you whine about something enough? Even the mighty Apple, which lords it above consumers with it’s ‘my way or the highway’ software approach, will capitulate and give the customer what he wants: the iPhone is getting multitasking.
Not right away, mind you. And, if the sources AppleInsider uses are not as reliable as they claim, maybe not at all. But, should it come to fruition, it will be in version 4.0 of the iPhone OS, for which there is no projected release date.
Between now and then Apple has some issues to contend with, as adding multitasking to the iPhone (and by extension the iPad), will be both a simple and a complex task. Simple because version 3.x of the iPhone OS has fully preemptive multitasking. Apple, for security and technical reasons, blocks all but a select few applications from running in the background. None of these select few are among the thousands of third party apps that populate the iPhone App Store (and which help bolster the iPhone's popularity).
Complex because Apple has to tweak the user interface to make access to multiple applications intuitive and easy. As most applications are shut down when a user goes to the home screen, such interface needs didn’t have to be address. Since Apple is obsessive about such things, this could take a while. And, of course, there’s all those funky technical issues over resource allocation that have to be resolved, so running apps play nice with the OS and with each other.
Once multitasking is implemented, then iPhone users can start whining about slow performance and battery life, like the rest of smartphone users.
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juliusrlevron
September 15, 2011 at 2:14am
Finally some thing of my concern is here. I thought that Apple supports multitasking but the blog really impressed me by delievering the right information. Well done guys and keep maintaining the power of Apple iPhone. tatuaggi
tatuaggi24
September 14, 2011 at 10:19am
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jcollins
March 12, 2010 at 3:37pm
It'd be funny if Apple adds multitasking going from OS3 to OS4 while Microsoft removes multitasking going from Windows Mobile 6.5 to Windows Phone 7...
TechJunkie
March 12, 2010 at 4:28am
I can't wait for this to hit the Iphone. Moronic apple fritters will complain about the battery dying in a few hours because they have just about every app running in the background. BUT, there is a solution. Just replace the battery with a fully charged one! OH-wait. You can't. Sorry. So you will be tethered to that wall charger just like Mr. Handjobs intended for you to do. You do what he tells you. You got that? Now be a good fritter and go buy the Ipad.
Sonickid101
March 11, 2010 at 5:33pm
Its called Blackra1n you run that then you install cydia and rock, search for a program called SBSettings which contains a process killer and an option to see your memory usage, then you install a program called backgrounder and set any programs you want to stay on automatically and any others you can have backgrounded by holding the home button till it comes up with the dummy message "This shiznits gunna stay on fool." (I joke)/ "Backgrounding enabled". now you have backgrounding on your phone and can kill tasks easily using SBsettings to keep your memory usage in check and your phone running fast. oh and then you install Installous and appsync so you can pirate any iphone app ever made :/ pwnded not advocating that you do it just saying that you can.
GBH
March 11, 2010 at 4:56pm
lol Ive been able to multitask since I got my iphone. Jailbreaking opens up so many possibilities.
Caboose
March 11, 2010 at 5:31pm
Until you update it
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
LGA1156
March 11, 2010 at 3:16pm
good, I hope apple will "steal" an idea from android palm windows or symbian, then they can get patent sued
Signal2Noise
March 11, 2010 at 2:51pm
I like the idea of multitasking. That's why I have a notebook.
scott.allerdice
February 16, 2011 at 11:14pm
yes but why only iphone 4, Apple must include the same in 3GS in the next update.
Techrocket9
March 11, 2010 at 2:48pm
One reason fewer for people to leave Apple...
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Caboose
March 11, 2010 at 1:45pm
I can see the commercials now, proclaiming that running multiple apps at the same time is the best thing ever! And it's only available on the iPhone...-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
nekollx
March 11, 2010 at 4:52pm
Multi tasking Done Right
The Apple Way (TM)
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violian
March 11, 2010 at 1:32pm
I thought they were only going to have multi-task in the newer upcoming iPhones - I don't know, called the iPhone 3GM or something. That'll be cool though. I never saw a need for multitasking when I had my iTouch, but it should be more beneficial for iPhone users.
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