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Well, when I say "multitasking", I mean the ability to switch out of a network app without it disconnecting. I wonder how persistent network connections will b
by ezy 17y ago
Well, when I say "multitasking", I mean the ability to switch out of a network app without it disconnecting. I wonder how persistent network connections will be managed that aren't IM or streaming audio?
One huge annoyance with the current platform is that remote desktop or ssh apps disconnect when you switch out of the app. It's one of the reasons i'm thinking of holding off on the iPad for another year (another OS release).
Given Scott's comment about how there is no "close" in this pseudo-multitasking world, I'm a little worried that the iPad will stay useless for me for the foreseeable future :-)
- ptomato 17y agoI haven't looked at the APIs yet, but it will probably be possible to do something like not DCing an ssh connection via the task-completion API, as the example given was uploading photos to flickr.
- ezy 17y agoI missed that. Yeah, then in all likelihood, if it isn't supported directly, one could hack it.
- cpr 17y agoIn the video, they said explicitly that there are background facilities for things like keeping Voip connections live. I have to imagine (cough) that there are similar facilities for any kind of IP connection.