ios 4.0 - Multitasking trash & apple con!

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I dont see the point of the multitasking in ios4.0

Why must EVERY application you close be kept in the multitask pane.
One should be able to close an app COMPLETELY when u finished & minimise only those you need to.

It's just Apple's way of throwing a bone to the hungry iDogs to keep them quiet.

These updates are always half-baked, so that they keep you hanging until they launch a new model to entice you with to upgrade

You cant fool us Jobs .....:twisted:
 
I think the implementation is great. Manually managing it the way you describe sounds tedious.
 
I'm also not sure of this also, doesn't make sense to have to close an app twice before it is completely closed!
 
Apps which are in the background are actually closed. They remain in memory but in a frozen state, so they don't use any CPU. Except for the 7 exceptions which Apple provide.
 
Yeah I'm not sure I fully understand this multitasking thing. All it seems to do is make a huge collection of apps at the bottom. What is actually happening here? Would be nice to read a manual about what's going on...
 
I tend to agree. There should have been a way to close an app completely like a long press of the home button or someting. I find myself manually clearing open apps all the time and that really annoys me. Im used to Backgrounder, a 2 year old Cydia app that gives the user the option of closing completely or minimising... The Apple implementation is a lot less buggy though...
 
I agree somewhat with the rant. 1st prize would be to have only multitask enabled applications go to the bottom, and rest just close like pre-iOS4.
 
No Offence, But i think you just looking for something to complain about now, since if apple never put multi tasking in what would your comments have been yet, just a useless post in my opinion, apple have done great with the new iOS, if the phone is not used 24/7 battery goes a full day for me and my 3gs
 
What you guys describe is co-operative multitasking and is the way Windows 1.0x to 3.11 worked, as well as DOS. It's not really multi-tasking since the other app is not running in the background but stays suspended - exactly like Windows 3.1 or DeskQView worked under DOS. This is still not useful - say you want to listen to music and do a Skype chat session or play a video while chatting or browse the web while listening to music etc - perhaps do more, listen to music while using iWork to create a document and Skype at the same time - this won't work.

Do any other smartphones run pre-emptive multitasking? (Unix, Linux, AIX, Mac OSX, Win 9x, Windows NT and up, OS/2 etc) multitasking?
 
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It could also be similar to the way android handles things. you dont close them but when it starts getting low on memory it closes some stuff for you. It works extremely well on android.
 
PeterCH said:
What you guys describe is co-operative multitasking and is the way Windows 1.0x to 3.11 worked, as well as DOS. It's not really multi-tasking since the other app is not running in the background but stays suspended - exactly like Windows 3.1 or DeskQView worked under DOS. This is still not useful - say you want to listen to music and do a Skype chat session or play a video while chatting or browse the web while listening to music etc - perhaps do more, listen to music while using iWork to create a document and Skype at the same time - this won't work.

Do any other smartphones run pre-emptive multitasking? (Unix, Linux, AIX, Mac OSX, Win 9x, Windows NT and up, OS/2 etc) multitasking?
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Symbian S60. It's been doing it for years now, I remember screwing around with it in 2005. (Partially) Welcome, Apple...
 
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PeterCH said:
What you guys describe is co-operative multitasking and is the way Windows 1.0x to 3.11 worked, as well as DOS. It's not really multi-tasking since the other app is not running in the background but stays suspended - exactly like Windows 3.1 or DeskQView worked under DOS. This is still not useful - say you want to listen to music and do a Skype chat session or play a video while chatting or browse the web while listening to music etc - perhaps do more, listen to music while using iWork to create a document and Skype at the same time - this won't work.

Do any other smartphones run pre-emptive multitasking? (Unix, Linux, AIX, Mac OSX, Win 9x, Windows NT and up, OS/2 etc) multitasking?
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Umm no. The video of Ndrive's newer version allows for voice prompts in the background for turn by turn directions whilst calling/browsing etc. I read that theTomTom version also does this, But I need to confirm. So it does allow for apps to actually "run" in the background, or maybe just limited featuresf an app...
 
Justinmw said:
No Offence, But i think you just looking for something to complain about now, since if apple never put multi tasking in what would your comments have been yet, just a useless post in my opinion, apple have done great with the new iOS, if the phone is not used 24/7 battery goes a full day for me and my 3gs
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Not really - I think it's a great upgrade, I just don't know how multitasking works.
 
I will try explain it for you.

If you double-tap the home button, your most recently opened apps appear, and you can switch to them. When you leave an app, it remains in memory, but freezes, so that the CPU isn't utilized. This is to help battery life. For apps that need to continue performing tasks in the background, Apple has provided 7 ways for apps to perform things in the background, such as VOIP, location services, music etc.

Now disclaimer here, apps which haven't been recompiled yet don't do this, they quit when you leave them. They need to be recompiled by the developer to enable multitasking first.

Anyway at some point your phone will run out of memory, with all these apps in memory, so it starts killing apps to free memory. That means the app will have to relaunch, but if it is properly made, it should restore your session exactly the way it was. Fast app switching is a new framework to help with this. All you notice is a slight delay.

Lastly, you can manually kill background apps by pressing and holding, but this should never be necessary.
 
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