iPhone 4 Announced Today

[Alex]

Good for the multitasking, but doesn't that disappoint all the people who have told me that the lack of multi-tasking is a desirable feature? I'll have to go find them and ask.

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Alex

Good for the multitasking, but doesn't that disappoint all the people who have told me that the lack of multi-tasking is a desirable feature? I'll have to go find them and ask.

If you follow the link above, you'll see that the new version of "multitasking" that Apple is using on the iPhone is a "best of both worlds". If open apps were running in the background (the imagined definition of multitasking for the iPhone before today), the battery would drain faster. This new version pauses apps when you switch between them.

I'm satisfied with that explanation.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by mousepod

I'm satisfied with that explanation.

Except nobody who ever defended the lack of multitasking ever used battery life as a defense but rather that it was actually better to only be able to run one application at a time.

As for how well this form works, I'd have to try it and see what impact "pausing" has. I have several apps that I frequently use simultaneously where I wouldn't want them to stop when I had something else in the foreground but I'd probably get used to it.

All somewhat moot for me since I'm pretty sure the iPhone still has a virtual keyboard which my use of test phones at work has confirmed is a showstoppe for me. I'm just old.

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Alex

Except nobody who ever defended the lack of multitasking ever used battery life as a defense].

Except me.