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Those of you who have iPhones will truly love this. I know after having a Palm Pre for just one week I realized I could never go back to single tasking. You'll
by mattmaroon 17y ago
Those of you who have iPhones will truly love this. I know after having a Palm Pre for just one week I realized I could never go back to single tasking. You'll find yourself walking around, listening to Pandora, mapping what's around you, checking out reviews of it on Yelp, etc. Or sitting in a coffee shop, Googling something else, answering a call, emailing, etc.
It will be rare that you're not running two things.
- lygaret 17y agoWait a second. Other than pandora, which I agree will be awesome in the background, what in that use case requires multitasking? Open Maps, see a place, click the link to switch to Safari to see it's website, check reviews in yelp. Nowhere is more than one thing happening here. Ditto with googling something, answering the phone, switching to email, switching back to Safari. Everything here is saving state so when you launch it it comes back to where it was. THIS is what people mean when they say that 90% of use cases are covered currently. The background services are great for pandora, etc. but let's not make them out to be more than they are.
- yellowbkpk 17y agoOk, I'll take a stab at it: foursquare app open to auto-checkin (or a Waze/OpenStreetMap editor recording GPS traces), IM app open to receive Skype calls, SSH connection open for quick access to top on your new widget-server. I admit that none of those things need to be running simultaneously, but the fact that they are running is pretty nice.
- jodrellblank 17y agoThose of you who have iPhones and haven't jailbroken them and installed Backgrounder from Cydia.