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[Zombie James]

Only 4 running apps at once?

 

[Gary Whitta]

Well there's one anti-iPhone talking point down in flames finally...

 

[Jal]

Thank god for multitasking, not that i give a shit but it saves the internet from going into meltdown.

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

Good news, everyone!

 

[Keyser Soze]

4 apps running?

 

[StoOgE]

I want to hear what the limitations to multitasking are.

Has to be something if they are saving battery life.

 

[gcubed]

I'm gonna launch mail, this has a URL -- so I jump to safari -- so I want to go back to mail... I double click the home button and a window raises that shows me all the apps that are running." Like a dock you can call up -- smart!


lol.... really? thats amazing, did you think of that all on your own?!!?

 

[Pappasman]

it looks... weird.

 

[giga]

Multitasking:

Basically cmd+tab

 

[The Elite]

No need to jailbreak for me anymore.

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

I may not even wait for a jailbreak :O

No need to jailbreak for me anymore.

High five!

 

[CzarTim]

This is awesome. Damn Apple is hard headed, but so good.

 

[gimmmick]

Apple finally caught up too palm and android with mult tasking now.

 

[TheHeretic]

Only 4 apps it seems.

 

[LCfiner]

so the home button double tap brings it up. pretty sure Marty called that one as the most likely way to do it.

 

[wolfmat]

I wonder if it's literal multitasking. Will check this shit out once it's good to go.

 

[Stat Flow]

Oh wait

 

[Dedalus]

10:18AM "So now I want to go back to my game. Pretty cool, huh?"

Yea, welcome to 2008...

 

[StoOgE]

Save states?

Nothing showed real multitasking.. I would have prefered he bring up something like last.fm and switched off to see what happened.

 

[DarkJC]

He’s moving back and forth between apps fairly quickly, but we’re not seeing how this is actually multitasking though — what Steve is showing right now is just app switching.

I'm trying to figure out if gdgt is being purposefully dense here.

 

[Karma]

Well there's one anti-iPhone talking point down in flames finally...

Many here said it was a positive.

 

[neojubei]

 

[Darko]

 

[Winterblink]

Save states?

Probably swaps the thing out of memory or something.

 

[wolfmat]

Save states?

Probably, yeah.

 

[jonnybryce]

"We've been using it a lot and it changes the way you use the iPhone."

lol, that's what we've been saying for all this time while you and the defense force said it wasn't necessary.

Ok, multitasking and wallpapers, down. What's next!?

 

[The Elite]

Now will this be for all existing idevices?

 

[Blackhead]

Wow embed PDF metadata? Does that mean annotations coming soon?

 

[FlyinJ]

Multitasking!

 

[scorcho]

rubxqub: why shouldn't a user have the ability to multitask out of a game and into an ebay app? it's absolutely archaic to run only one application at a time considering the power of these smartphones!

 

[Tesseract]

open platform or bust.

 

[Ashhong]

Well there's one anti-iPhone talking point down in flames finally...

yea thank god.

 

[LCfiner]

Jacqui Cheng:
for example, Pandora
Thursday April 8, 2010 10:20 Jacqui Cheng
10:20


Jacqui Cheng:
so devs can add multitasking while the system preserves battery life
Thursday April 8, 2010 10:20 Jacqui Cheng
10:20


Jacqui Cheng:
in iPhone OS 4, we're providing those services as APIs to developers
Thursday April 8, 2010 10:20 Jacqui Cheng
10:19


Jacqui Cheng:
looked at tens of thousands of apps and distilled the services that they need to multitask in the background
Thursday April 8, 2010 10:19 Jacqui Cheng
10:19


Jacqui Cheng:
how are we adding multitasking while preserving battery life and performance?

 

[Gary Whitta]

Yea, welcome to 2008...

2008 when multi-tasking implementation/performance was shitty and murdered your battery? I'll pass.

 

[Darko]

can you run something like pandora in the background?

edit: NEVERMIND :lol

 

[RubxQub]

Need to see more of this multi-tasking.

Not sure how it's much different than what you can already do aside from making app switching easier.

Edit: Here comes Pandora...nevermind.

 

[RedShift]

They changed the dock! About time, its hideous at the moment.

 

[Jasoco]

I assume the whole Keynote will be online on Apple.com and iTunes by the end of the day as usual. Can't wait to see the info about this from Steve's mouth.

 

[Kibbles]

So does this mean we can listen to music on Pandora while doing other things?

[edit] Nevermind. :lol

 

[Particle Physicist]

Only 4 apps it seems.

nope:

"And again, I can go home anytime I want. Boom I'm home. Make sense? Really simple UI, puts all the apps at the bottom that are running." You can scroll through the list. "Also, you see the new look of the dock. So that is multitasking. We've been using it a lot and it changes the way you use the iPhone."

 

[enzo_gt]

PANDORA WHAT THE FUCK.

 

[Guevara]

Multitasking Pandora andherewego.gif

 

[StoOgE]

Save states?

Nothing showed real multitasking.. I would have prefered he bring up something like last.fm and switched off to see what happened.

well, pandora, I guess that will work.

 

[Pctx]

No need to jailbreak for me anymore.

Thankfully I never did because I was waiting for this.... oh man... Apple made my day!

 

[wolfmat]

Might get real multitasking for audio sink and shit like that, apart from that though, I'd say it's "magic", if you know what I mean..

 

[Keyser Soze]

"Very simple, very very simple.” Applause. Opens eBay app, “I’m right to where I left off.” Tap Tap Revenge: “Alright, I’m not winning here.” He’s moving back and forth between apps fairly quickly, but we’re not seeing how this is actually multitasking though — what Steve is showing right now is just app switching.

,

“We’re providing seven multitasking services. First: background audio streaming.” Talking about Pandora — exactly who should be getting this first! “Pandora is great, but until now if you left Pandora to go to another app, the music would stop.” Not anymore!

 

[Zombie James]

If only Pandora was available outside the US.

 

[giga]

Combination of save states and background services APIs. Smart.

 

[LCfiner]

Here's an actual surprise for me:

Until now, if you left the app to go to another one, the music stopped. No longer. Pandora can continue to play music in the background while you switch to apps. And you can use a controller in the lock screen to control Pandora." Pandora's Tim Westergren is up.

that's nice.

 

[Minsc]

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