Mac Sale FREE Shipping“Apple this summer will go a long way towards silencing critics and catering to one of the most prevalent demands of its iPhone user base, when it introduces a multitasking solution through the handset’s 4.0 software update that will finally allow several third party apps to run concurrently and in the background,” Kasper Jade and Prince McLean report for AppleInsider.

“People with a proven track record in predicting Apple’s technological advances tell AppleInsider that the Cupertino-based company has developed a ‘full-on solution’ to multitasking on the iPhone OS but offered no specifics on how the technology would optimize resource conservation and battery life — two of the most critical issues surrounding the matter, alongside security,” Jade and McLean report.

“From a user-facing perspective, Apple plans to deliver a multi-tasking manager that leverages interface technology already bundled with its Mac OS X operating system, according to those same people,” Jade and McLean report. “It was requested that specifics be withheld at this time, as the iPhone Software 4.0 remains under development and reportedly has a quite ‘way to go’ before it’s ready for prime time.”

Jade and McLean report, “Today’s iPhone 3.x software is a fully preemptive multitasking operating system, but it artificially restricts apps (other than specific ones bundled with the system by Apple) from running in the background.”

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Fred Mertz" for the heads up.]

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