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IPhone OS 4 Developer Preview brings multitasking and more to the iPhone

36 points by niravs 17y ago

spudlyo 17y ago
Nice to finally have bluetooth keyboard support. I could never bring myself to use my iPhone as an SSH terminal because typing UNIX commands using the onscreen keyboard drove me crazy. I think landscape 80x24 on the iPhone would even look pretty decent. I've always been disappointed in iPhone bluetooth support. When we finally got A2DP they only implemented a half-assed AVRCP profile so we couldn't skip tracks with our A2DP headsets. Frustrating. Hopefully version 4.0 of the iPhone OS finally implements this, but I've yet to see confirmation.
ryandvm 17y ago
Well who knew? The iPhone really does need multitasking.
Tichy 17y ago
"Apple is finally bring a bit more organization to the iPhone with folders, too." How ironic, when it has just been claimed that Apple killed the file system (a ka organization with folders).
- DLWormwood 17y ago
  Definitely an unfortunate choice of name, since the mechanic being used for OS 4 isn't based on the file system or the classic desktop metaphor. (It looks like a cross between the Dashboard widget selector and the Dock's grid views under Mac OS X.) In a way, it's a return to how the original Mac handled folders while using the original MFS. (Folders were an illusion provided by the Finder; the file system didn't know about them.)
dminor 17y ago
Wait, you couldn't set the wallpaper with previous iPhones?
akadien 17y ago
I just read the Apple docs, and it's not multitasking in the sense that the world thinks of multitasking. It's more like suspended animation with selected background tasks or events (playing audio, voip, location events, "I need more time to finish my work"' and prescheduled events). This is from a first read of documentation and I haven't coded anything up yet to play.
- hboon 17y ago
  It's under NDA.
  - akadien 17y ago
    The information I described was released to the public yesterday. I didn't describe any of the API or class reference.

36 points by niravs 17y ago

Nice to finally have bluetooth keyboard support. I could never bring myself to use my iPhone as an SSH terminal because typing UNIX commands using the onscreen keyboard drove me crazy. I think landscape 80x24 on the iPhone would even look pretty decent. I've always been disappointed in iPhone bluetooth support. When we finally got A2DP they only implemented a half-assed AVRCP profile so we couldn't skip tracks with our A2DP headsets. Frustrating. Hopefully version 4.0 of the iPhone OS finally implements this, but I've yet to see confirmation.

ryandvm 17y ago

Well who knew? The iPhone really does need multitasking.

Tichy 17y ago

"Apple is finally bring a bit more organization to the iPhone with folders, too." How ironic, when it has just been claimed that Apple killed the file system (a ka organization with folders).

DLWormwood 17y ago
Definitely an unfortunate choice of name, since the mechanic being used for OS 4 isn't based on the file system or the classic desktop metaphor. (It looks like a cross between the Dashboard widget selector and the Dock's grid views under Mac OS X.) In a way, it's a return to how the original Mac handled folders while using the original MFS. (Folders were an illusion provided by the Finder; the file system didn't know about them.)

dminor 17y ago

Wait, you couldn't set the wallpaper with previous iPhones?

akadien 17y ago

I just read the Apple docs, and it's not multitasking in the sense that the world thinks of multitasking. It's more like suspended animation with selected background tasks or events (playing audio, voip, location events, "I need more time to finish my work"' and prescheduled events). This is from a first read of documentation and I haven't coded anything up yet to play.

hboon 17y ago
It's under NDA.
- akadien 17y ago
  The information I described was released to the public yesterday. I didn't describe any of the API or class reference.