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From: zoara on 2 Jul 2010 06:38 SteveH <italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > >> In article <1jkyrnw.1lmu35jo1g1ldN%italiancar(a)gmail.com>, >> SteveH <italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> No idea, but most applications aren't really 'multitasking', it's > > > more >>> 'task switching'. >> >> What do you mean by that? "Multitasking" is an attribute of the >> operating system, not an application. Do you just mean that most >> applications don't do anything when they're not in control of the >> display? > > Yeah, just that. > > They're suspended until you re-activate them. Are you talking about the iPhone, or Blackberry? Because that's my question. Apple touts this as their novel approach to multitasking (in the colloqial sense); my friend says Blackberry does this already. Are you saying he's right, or are you talking about the thing that prompted my question in the first place? -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 2 Jul 2010 09:21
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > >> In article <1jkyrnw.1lmu35jo1g1ldN%italiancar(a)gmail.com>, >> SteveH <italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> No idea, but most applications aren't really 'multitasking', it's > > > more >>> 'task switching'. >> >> What do you mean by that? "Multitasking" is an attribute of the >> operating system, not an application. Do you just mean that most >> applications don't do anything when they're not in control of the >> display? > > I think in the context of iOS - by the way, what is going on with > Apple's rebarbative renaming of things in the last 10 years or so? For > a > company with such an aesthetic grasp on things, calling applications > 'apps', or renaming iBooks and PowerBooks 'MacBooks', or the iPhone OS > 'iOS' seems such an odd thing to do - anyway, in the context of iOS, I > think that some applications can multitask (i.e. can be suspended in > their state) and some can't (and have to be restarted). > > But I might be completely wrong, since I don't have an iP*. Apps need to be rejigged to take advantage of iOS4 multitasking. Apps that haven't been updated will exhibit the old "quit and restart" behaviour. This has no effect on whether they appear on the double-press "recently used" list - they all do. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm |