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From: Ian McCall on 5 Apr 2010 14:01
Must admit I'm more interested in this than I am the current iPad
mania. Please, -please- let the multitasking rumours be true.
<http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/05/iphone-os-4-0-preview-event-scheduled-for-this-thursday/>

Cheers,
Ian


From: Woody on 5 Apr 2010 15:07
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:

> Must admit I'm more interested in this than I am the current iPad mania.
> Please, -please- let the multitasking rumours be true.
> <http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/05/iphone-os-4-0-preview-event-scheduled
> -for-this-thursday/>

Although I feel any modern system should have multitasking and it is odd
that it doesn't, as my phone is jailbroken, I have multitasking and it
is done quite well (with pro-switcher), but to be honest, I almost never
use it, so I hope there is more to the update than just that, as for me
it wouldn't really be worth the upgrade (and thus I guess the loss of
sbsettings, which I would have difficulty in doing without).

Havning said that, it would have knock on effects for the iPad which
would be interesting!


--
Woody

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From: Jochem Huhmann on 5 Apr 2010 15:29
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> writes:

> Must admit I'm more interested in this than I am the current iPad mania.
> Please, -please- let the multitasking rumours be true.
> <http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/05/iphone-os-4-0-preview-event-scheduled-for-this-thursday/>

The problem is that the iPad has just 256MB of RAM. This will mean some
tight limits for multitasking and with no virtual memory the thing will
run out of RAM very soon.


Jochem

--
"A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no
longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Jochem Huhmann on 5 Apr 2010 15:39
usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) writes:

> Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
>
>> Must admit I'm more interested in this than I am the current iPad mania.
>> Please, -please- let the multitasking rumours be true.
>> <http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/05/iphone-os-4-0-preview-event-scheduled
>> -for-this-thursday/>
>
> Although I feel any modern system should have multitasking and it is odd
> that it doesn't, as my phone is jailbroken, I have multitasking and it
> is done quite well (with pro-switcher), but to be honest, I almost never
> use it, so I hope there is more to the update than just that, as for me
> it wouldn't really be worth the upgrade (and thus I guess the loss of
> sbsettings, which I would have difficulty in doing without).

I would be much more interested in having something like Dashboard for
the iPad. Having a Webkit process running in the background for Widgets
shouldn't take up much RAM and for small things (music streaming, IM,
calculator, alarm clock, ...) this would be much more useful than
switching between individual full-screen apps.

I would be really happy to be able to swipe into the screen from the
bezel and have a Dashboard layer with widgets coming up. And since these
things are just HTML and CSS and Javascript anyway this would be the
right place for Apple to relax a bit and to allow widgets from other
places than the appstore (these things couldn't do anything else than
any webpage can do in Safari). This would surely be enough to allow a
way around the multitasking problem and the "walled garden" problem
without any of the problems true multitasking will bring on a device
with just 256MB of RAM.


Jochem

--
"A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no
longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 5 Apr 2010 16:35
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:29:50 +0200, Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net>
wrote:

>Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> writes:
>
>> Must admit I'm more interested in this than I am the current iPad mania.
>> Please, -please- let the multitasking rumours be true.
>> <http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/05/iphone-os-4-0-preview-event-scheduled-for-this-thursday/>
>
>The problem is that the iPad has just 256MB of RAM. This will mean some
>tight limits for multitasking and with no virtual memory the thing will
>run out of RAM very soon.

iPhoneOS supports VM (unsurprisingly, since it's Darwin under the
hood) but doesn't have any enabled under normal circumstances. I read
some tales of enabling it on't Web somewhere, but can't find it now.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
My swerver room, my patch panels. By the time they figure out why none of the
ports on their floor box work anymore I'll be done, dusted and down the pub
with a pint of something brewed with yeast that was smarter than they are.
-- Matt S Trout, asr
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