Meaning of "multitasking" on iPhone, iPad, etc
in [UK Mac]
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From: Chris Ridd on 28 Jan 2010 12:25 On 2010-01-28 17:19:55 +0000, David Kennedy said: > Peter Ceresole wrote: >> >> And that's almost certainly Apple's calculation. The target audience >> will care far, far more about battery life than about multitasking. >> Apple did pretty much the same thing with the early iPhones. All the >> techies were jumping up and down shouting 'Lame! Underpowered!' How many >> millions of the things have Apple sold? How much money did they make >> this last quarter? What they did set up, and seems to have made the >> success of the iPhone, is the app store. Not that you can't get apps for >> other phones, but as with the iTunes store, they made the whole process >> so *easy*. >> > > The nice chappie on Auntie Beeb this morning summed up the iPhone very > nicely, "there was nothing new or revolutionary, but Apple made it > usable" Exactly. That reminds me: I must ask everyone I know with netbooks when they last used them. -- Chris
From: Peter Ceresole on 28 Jan 2010 12:35 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > That reminds me: I must ask everyone I know with netbooks when they > last used them. My local caff (where the yummy mummies of East Dulwich go for a coffee and a chat) has a good, free wifi connection. And for a bit, there were a few using Netbooks. But now it's back to normal, and they're using Macbooks again. Or, for the upscale yummies, MBPs. Haven't seen a Dell there for ages. But then the owner runs a Mac, too. -- Peter
From: Woody on 28 Jan 2010 12:47 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-01-28 17:19:55 +0000, David Kennedy said: > > > The nice chappie on Auntie Beeb this morning summed up the iPhone very > > nicely, "there was nothing new or revolutionary, but Apple made it > > usable" > > Exactly. > > That reminds me: I must ask everyone I know with netbooks when they > last used them. I last used mine in the post before this one. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Richard Tobin on 28 Jan 2010 12:43 In article <7sdvk1FuuU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >That reminds me: I must ask everyone I know with netbooks when they >last used them. Just the other day - I installed another different operating system on it. -- Richard -- Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.
From: Nancy on 28 Jan 2010 14:02
Ian McCall wrote: > On 2010-01-28 11:35:27 +0000, James Taylor > <usenet(a)oakseed.demon.co.uk.invalid> said: > >> I have to presume that what people really mean by non-multitasking is >> a GUI that displays only one application's interface at a time, even >> if the other applications are still running and thus multitasking in >> the true sense of the word. However, if so, then I don't understand >> what they would expect from a small device. Do they really imagine >> that window management is something they want to be able to do on an >> iPhone? > > No - the application is literally terminated. It's what's preventing me, > for instance, from running Spotify or SomaFM on the iPhone and then > switching to writing mail or reading RSS feeds or whatever. They're not > running. > > Every other phone os can multitask at the applications level, it > wouldn't be beyond the wit of Apple to introduce some gesture-based > tasking,or maybe pressing the home button twice shows all running apps > or something. It's a daft omission. > > > Cheers, > Ian > Agreed. Can you imagine not being able to, say, do something like listen to music on your iPad while browsing the web? |