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Re: iPhone OS 4.0

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Post by thwarted »

stcredzero wrote: post #4

I’m not convinced that the task switcher needs to exist. Since apps in the task switcher aren’t really running, the task switcher isn’t so much a task switcher as it is a list of recently used apps The task switcher lets you switch back and forth between apps one handed using your thumb. I think that's part of the rationale for it. Also, the Least Recently Used algorithm will dynamically make a short list of the actu…

One handed? So no pinch-to-switch-apps gesture? (it seems odd to point out one handed operation of an iPhone feature when so much of the reason people say it is superior are the things that require two hands to operate).

Re: iPhone OS 4.0

#32

Post by aero142 »

paul9290 wrote: post #29
bruceboughton wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stinks?! Really? Apple have done a pretty good job of backporting features where it makes sense to do so.

Well Id like to upgrade to the 3gs and I do so for $200, but only way I can get a 3gs due to cellphone contract is pay $500 or more. Which is the cost of the iPad, which does not makes sense. Is Apple saying after 4 years of the iPhone in production the cost to manufacture both the iPhone & iPad are the same? Bullcrap AT&T/Apple!

I think Apple is too busy counting their billions of dollars from ATT subsidized iPhones. If they lower the consumer price then they have to lower the price that ATT pays them as well.

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#35

Post by iron_ball »

mbrubeck wrote: post #7

Android has an almost-identical "task switcher" (press and hold the Home button to show a popup of recent apps). I don't think anyone I know uses it regularly - and I just spent 18 months working in a 30-person Android software company.

I use it constantly, for the record. It's my default way of switching apps or restarting recent ones.

Re: iPhone OS 4.0

#36

Post by DougBTX »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #14
stcredzero wrote: post #4

I’m not convinced that the task switcher needs to exist. Since apps in the task switcher aren’t really running, the task switcher isn’t so much a task switcher as it is a list of recently used apps The task switcher lets you switch back and forth between apps one handed using your thumb. I think that's part of the rationale for it. Also, the Least Recently Used algorithm will dynamically make a short list of the actu…

It'll be interesting to see if the older phones get this. As you say it can function as a recently used list, even if those apps are not running, the user shouldn't have to care about the distinction.

The iPhone 3G won't be getting this multitasking.

Re: iPhone OS 4.0

#37

Post by DougBTX »

stanleydrew wrote: post #25
bruceboughton wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stinks?! Really? Apple have done a pretty good job of backporting features where it makes sense to do so.

Still stinks though if he can't get the full update.

He also can't double his ram with a software update.

Re: iPhone OS 4.0

#38

Post by almakdad »

LukasMathis wrote: post #34
almakdad wrote: post #33

Apple's approach is closer to a folder metaphor than Lukas's. http://goo.gl/NMhl

So you're saying real-world folders switch around the positions of their contents when you open them? :-)

That would be confusing! Not at all. I'm simply saying your take is a lot like a popover and think that Apple's implementation though not perfect, is closer to a folder. Actually, to be exact they should have really called it "Drawers" because that's how their animated and in a drawer, contents do indeed get shuffled around!

Although, I've had instances when handling bulky folders and moving them around, the top most documents would get accidentally rearranged! ;-)

Re: iPhone OS 4.0

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Post by LukasMathis »

almakdad wrote: post #38
LukasMathis wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're saying real-world folders switch around the positions of their contents when you open them? :-)

That would be confusing! Not at all. I'm simply saying your take is a lot like a popover and think that Apple's implementation though not perfect, is closer to a folder. Actually, to be exact they should have really called it "Drawers" because that's how their animated and in a drawer, contents do indeed get shuffled around! Although, I've had instances when handling bulky folders and moving them around, the top most…

I agree, drawers would have been an apt metaphor. Also, drawers get stuck sometimes, so that would be something interesting Apple could emulate, as well :-)

Re: iPhone OS 4.0

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Post by machinedog »

mbrubeck wrote: post #7

Android has an almost-identical "task switcher" (press and hold the Home button to show a popup of recent apps). I don't think anyone I know uses it regularly - and I just spent 18 months working in a 30-person Android software company.

This is my primary way of switching between recent applications. Take it with a grain of salt, though, as the Android way of dealing with App icons is a world of a difference from iPhone.

Android uses a separate and almost useless alphabetically-sorted application's drawer. You are able to put applications on the home screens, but chances are that you are messing with an application that you don't use very frequently and thus have not placed it onto a home screen. In addition, on stock Android (not rooted/jailbroken), you only have 3 home screens.

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