14 Feb
2010
14 Feb
'10
8:32 a.m.
On 02/14/2010 10:06 PM, Arnold Krille wrote:
They disabled userspace multi tasking. You can get access to it if you
jailbreak.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
Android is an
interesting platform though, not least because it does have
reasonable horsepower on the Nexus and it is multitasking. Why the iPhone
dropped that capability beats a lot of people.
I don't think the iphone dropped multitasking. Otherwise you would have
to run
the "phone" app all the time to be able to receive calls. And you couldn't
receive short messages because that app is not running. What they disabled,
probably because of extensive user-analysis, is the application switching in
gui. And even that I am not entirely sure as I haven't actually gotten an i*
in my hands...