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[Marty Chinn]

Many here said it was a positive.

Some even defended it on the iPad saying they like being restricted to one app and not being able to multitask.

 

[Pctx]

ABOUT GOD DAMN TIME!

Pandora still plays when you hit home....

 

[Trouble]

Now if they throw in support for multiple activesync accounts I will be a happy camper.

 

[Macho Madness]

Apple fans: It's now OK to like multitasking.

 

[RubxQub]

Ah, separated multi-tasking into 7 services so you can background certain aspects of your app vs. the whole thing.

That makes more sense.

 

[giga]

Pandora only needs to use the background audio process to run this. And, you can use the iPod controls in the lock screen to control Pandora. Here’s a demo from Pandora’s founder, Tim Westergren.


Love.

 

[Darko]

10:22AM "It took us one day to make Pandora fully background aware on the iPhone."

:lol

 

[Jasoco]

Where are you people seeing screenshots of the UI? All I've seen are slides from this thread of icons about features and that Pandora thing. Where's the new Dock?

 

[Guevara]

Making the iPhone better for playing music kind of completes the circle.

 

[cory]

What does this mean for the iPad?

 

[StoOgE]

Combination of save states and background services APIs. Smart.

seems to be the case. Probably will be extremely selective about what apps get to use the background services as well.

 

[gcubed]

Ah, separated multi-tasking into 7 services so you can background certain aspects of your app vs. the whole thing.

That makes more sense.

and there is the out

 

[Spy]

It seems like Apple just shut down the smartphone competition once again and I'm not even an Apple fan.

 

[RubxQub]

10:22AM "It took us one day to make Pandora fully background aware on the iPhone."

:lol

You need to reloop this avatar so that it removes the "Claire attempting to stab part" so it looks like Kate is getting railed.

...oh my god...

 

[NotWii]

Cmoooooon, let us customise the SMS tones!

And it's not 23 degrees and Sunny!

 

[gimmmick]

For us android / webos users... anyone else find this really bland as well? Hopefully more useful info will come into to play.

 

[noisome07]

Where are you people seeing screenshots of the UI? All I've seen are slides from this thread of icons about features and that Pandora thing. Where's the new Dock?

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/live-from-apples-iphone-os-4-event/?sort=newest&refresh=60

 

[jonnybryce]

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

Blackberry and Symbian say lol.

Android also says whatsup.

webOS agrees though

 

[scorcho]

Apple fans: It's now OK to like multitasking.

Essentially. We'll soon have flowery rhetoric on why new found Apple's multitasking prowess seals the fate on Microsoft's close-minded approach (currently) to multitasking.

 

[Ecstatic]

Apple fans: It's now OK to like multitasking.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Darko]

What does this mean for the iPad?

same OS

 

[DataStream]

That is a pretty crap multitasking implementation in terms of XD.

I would hope a more sophisticated implementation will be demoed for the ipad later as this would be a waste on such a huge screen.

 

[VOOK]

Now I want Pandora

 

[Karma]

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

:lol Sure, only Apple can do it right. Everyone else has shitty multi-tasking.

 

[Nazgul_Hunter]

Some even defended it on the iPad saying they like being restricted to one app and not being able to multitask.

Yeah; that was a bullshit argument; but the problem was the performance trade-off which they have hopefully resolved.

 

[CzarTim]

Pandora is finally useful! FAP TIME

 

[numble]

skype hype

 

[Marty Chinn]

Maybe I need to understand how multitasking works more, but this quote bothers me:

"It took us one day to make Pandora fully background aware on the iPhone."

 

[Mailenstein]

Steve really delivers today. Just wow...

 

[Keyser Soze]

My tentpole is rising

 

[jonnybryce]

It seems like Apple just shut down the smartphone competition once again and I'm not even an Apple fan.

lol are you serious? Because they finally multitask? It's just a prettier version of the way Android manages it, and nowhere near as nice as how webOS handles multitasking. They just caught up, that's all.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Everyone saying that Palm and Android already do multitasking, yes, we know that. And Steve even said as much on stage. We get it. Apple isn't the first to do multi. We don't care if they're first and they're not saying that they are. Simply that it is here. Finally. Get over it an d move on to what ever your next anti-iPhone rant is.

 

[Pappasman]

Skype? meh.

 

[Barrett2]

Multitasking was a prerequisite to me buying an iPad. I might actually pick one up now.

Also, lol at the people who defended a no multi-tasking tablet computer.

 

[gimmmick]

It seems like Apple just shut down the smartphone competition once again and I'm not even an Apple fan.

Please tell me you are joking?

 

[giga]

Maybe I need to understand how multitasking works more, but this quote bothers me:

"It took us one day to make Pandora fully background aware on the iPhone."

There’s 7 different APIs for developers to use. Pandora is using the new background audio API with iPod controls.

 

[Odious Tea]

Multitasking was a prerequisite to me buying an iPad. I might actually pick one up now.

Also, lol at the people who defended a no multi-tasking tablet computer.

Agreed. Definitely interests me more than before. May wait for a price drop, though.

Also, I really hope new notification system is part of the "tentpoles".

 

[mrkgoo]

Sounds like the multitasking APIs are minimal - for example Pandora app has an "Audio multitasking API', which pumps out the audio only (and connection), so that everything else to do with the app isn't running.

 

[wolfmat]

They basically set up realtime background sinks for specific purposes like lock screen interaction or whatever, the rest is just frozen, as one would expect from a mobile device, really.

 

[PSGames]

This is coming to the iPad right??? :-D

 

[SimleuqiR]

Android is creeping up. Still has ways to go worldwide though.

Holy Jesus phone!!

 

[LCfiner]

I'm still seeing a blue box on the lock screen like old fashioned 3.0. If notifications don't change in 4.0 I will be disappoint(ed)

 

[The Elite]

Dying to see if this is going to be on ipad as well.

 

[TheHeretic]

WebOS has the best multitasking by far, but in function this looks pretty similar.

 

[derFeef]

I like how they talk about it as they invented multitasking :lol
Still good news.

 

[Lord Error]

I don't care what people do with their phones, but Apple does. As Tobor said, they're not going to deal with the problems that come up. A good example against it would be how every GAF "my Firefox is broken or weird" thread gets solved when they figure out what extension messed up.

I think customizing the app loader is stupid, but I don't care if someone jailbreaks to do it for their own device.

In any case, as I mentioned before, I don't even care that much about that kind of customization. I want the customization to happen on unlock screen, even if it's just with apple-sanctioned elements only, with no 3rd party stuff.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Maybe I need to understand how multitasking works more, but this quote bothers me:

"It took us one day to make Pandora fully background aware on the iPhone."

It seems apps move to a different state when not in use instead of just moving into the background and eating up power

 

[Barrett2]

What does this mean for the iPad?

It means you don't have to secretly hate yourself for buying one.

 

[Y2Kev]

Everyone saying that Palm and Android already do multitasking, yes, we know that. And Steve even said as much on stage. We get it. Apple isn't the first to do multi. We don't care if they're first and they're not saying that they are. Simply that it is here. Finally. Get over it an d move on to what ever your next anti-iPhone rant is.

IPHONE ISNT AN OPEN PLATFORM

 

[Macho Madness]

So it's limited multitasking. Nope, sorry, Android still does it better.