“One particularly prominent app that now supports the basic iOS 4’s multitasking API is Dropbox, a file sharing/syncing tool,” Kim reports.
Previous versions of Apple’s iPhone OS, now called iOS, did not support “multitasking in 3rd party applications,” Kim reports. “Apple has cited issues with performance and battery life as chief concerns with unrestricted multitasking. Instead, Apple has introduced 7 specific background services for IOS 4 apps that will allow them to continue tasks after a user switches away from them.”
Kim reports, “Apple will be distributing iOS 4 to the public on June 21st.”
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Until Pandora can multitask this thing is useless!
@ TowerTone: Yes, I want to listen to Pandora while playing Tetris, texting, reading my email, checking MDN and, oh yeah, working.
I am so waiting for iOS 4 for the iPad. It is excruciating.
Since buying my 3G 64gb iPad on launch day in Sydney, Australia, I have used it almost every day. It’s becoming a “fondle-pad”.
However, one problem I keep running into is that of having to close down apps to lauch other apps, copy some text close down that app and then relauch the original app into which I paste the text etc…
It’s like being back on my first twin-floppy Mac SE with Single Finder. Only then, the Apple menu had a Scrapbook in which items could be stored and called from. Wonder if any developer would like to take a shot at developing Scrapbook for iPad…
Ting,
One word: Pastebot
I want Pandora while listening to iTunes!
The iPad feels positively prehistoric since migrating to 4.0 in my iPhone.
Apple has a ton of work to do on the iPad version.
Seriously, Pandora is the single app driving the desire for multitasking.
——RM
They announced Pandora would take advantage of multi-tasking months ago. Research = More relaxed Mac Fan
I assume Pandora is done since they already demo’d it months ago. And they’ve had all this time to fine tune it.
Merci beaucoup, Dirty Pierre le Punk!
The guy from Pandora announced multi-tasking at Steve’s keynote introducing OS4.