Okay so I missed a couple of posts but oh well. I do not really know what to say about it because everyone already knows about it but I guess I will sum it up quickly.
Firstly, multitasking. It looks very cool. Some people are complaining about how apps need to be slightly modified to use multitasking. I think people are over reacting. The only modifying is putting in a bit of code supplied by apple. This seems to be very easy to do so there is no reason every app developer should be able to do it. Also the fact they have been able to figure out how to implement it with little to no battery and performance depletion is just EPIC:). Compared to the multitasking system in a phone like the Palm Pre which is notorious for being slow and having a terrible battery.
Second thing is backgrounds. I really like this. It has been something available on jail broken iPhones for ages and I think since the iPad could do it they had to implement it in the iPhone. Also the new dock is very cool. For those of you who haven't seen it, it is just like the OSX dock(sort of a transparent trapezoid) instead of the cool looking metal grate currently in the iPhone OS. The only problem I see with backgrounds the inability to change the text colour if the app names. This means they will not be visible with some backgrounds. Jail broken phones overcame this with apps the change the text colour but everyone knows apple would never approve those. Maybe apple will introduce some auto detect feature which changes the colour automatically but I highly doubt it.
I also really love the way they have implemented folders. Jail broken phones had folders already but they were TERRIBLE. They were very very very slow to open as well as clunky and difficult to add apps to. This way is just excellent and will my mere 100 apps I know i will definitely be using this feature.
I will finish on Wednesday. BYE
AndrewCow
Monday, April 12, 2010
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So, in other words, OS 4 is equivalent to jailbreaking the phone. Nothing fancy, except it now removes the need to *actually* jailbreak.
The other interesting thing most people overlook is the new features in the SDK, in-app SMS and access to camera/camera images for example. Should be interesting to see what app developers make with all the new features.
> Some people are complaining about how apps need to be slightly modified to use multitasking.
Mostly because they don't want to spend the effort designing what their app is supposed to do in the background; editing; testing; and supplying an update for *all* of their apps.
On the other hand, it is necessary if you want to have your app multitask, and it's not too much effort relative to the regular maintenance most apps require.
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