Rumor: Apple to Add Multi-Tasking in iPhone 4.0
3/13/2010 09:37:00 PM - 5 comments
It is a fact that most Apple iPhone users have always wished to be able to run multiple applications on the device; and if rumors are to be believed, you might soon get your wish fulfilled this summer. News is rife that Apple will include multitasking in its iPhone 4.0 update, which will allow several third party apps to run at the same time as well as in the background.Although, it is not very clear as to how the iPhone update would deal with two of the biggest issues associated with multitasking - battery life and performance; it is for sure that Multitasking will be hailed by most iPhone users. However, there are also many who do not consider it as that important, as you do not actually need multitasking for looking up restaurants, movie times or news reports.
Do you actually need Multitasking for your iPhone?
There’s a big debate as to if you actually require Multitasking for your iPhone. Even though some have revoked the idea of multitasking, it is fact that the feature would be useful for running apps like Pandora in the background. The iPhone developers have also been recently developing apps that 'remember' what you were doing when you last closed the apps. It was almost like the app was running in the background ever since it restarted.
However, one thing that hold true is that even though Apple doesn't really need multitasking for the iPhone, it is the competitors in the fray in the smartphone market, who are pushing multitasking as a feature. This in fact is giving the perception that it is a feature that can ‘make a difference’ when it comes to customer choice.
Going by reports, other smartphones like the Motorola Droid, which support multi-tasking; the feature comes with a heavy impact on battery life and performance, and perhaps this could be one reason for Apple taking so long to include it. And taking Apple's focus on preserving battery life to date, it seems rather unusual to believe that iPhone OS 4.0 will be targeting Apple products that are powered by multi-core capable processors, such as the ARM Cortex A9.
There are also rumors doing the rounds that iPhone OS 4.0 may not be released in 2010. While all eyes are on the iPhone OS 4.0, amidst all rumors we hope against hope that Apple will definitely have something wonderful to offer for its customer base.
Posted: Seuli.B
Multitasking would help make the iPhone much more agile in mobile situations.
Many apps have fairly long and costly (data) startup times. It would be a great improvement if one could just switch to the browser to look up a web-page without having to reload the previous app.
It would also mean that many apps could drop the otherwise mostly useless in-app browsers and concentrate on their core functionality.
can we it? i accidently updated my iphone to 3.1.3 and now i cant jailbreak it...
Once you have this you'll see why you need it. Jailbroken running Backgrounder is essential!!
Ever wonder why iPod software can run on the background? It is something they have but refused to share?