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> "Both the iPad and iPhone, as mobile devices, have limited memory (256MB in the current incarnations) and no hard drive. No hard drive means no swap file." He loses me here. My iPhone has a 32GB SSD hard drive. Sounds like a perfect medium for swap space to me...
And I'm pretty sure that if I include another two apps (safari and mail) on my exception list most people would be okay without multitasking.
I don't need a window manager, I need to focus on the app I'm using and the ability to reply (or send) sms and mails and check something on the web without quitting the current app.
This guy is just wrong: Apple OS has turned off multitasking for 3rd party apps to maintain battery life. It fully supports it. This is a control situation, where Apple has decided "We want our devices to have good battery life more than we want to allow multitasking".
Best thing about those excuses are: Every other mobile OS supports multitasking and all the smartphones i know have similar battery life. Symbian, Windows, Android, all have multitasking and yet people try to convince me that it, "not needed", "not possible", "makes the device unstable", "drains battery too much" which is just not true. My Android phone lasts at least as long as an iphone and i use multitasking all t…
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> "Both the iPad and iPhone, as mobile devices, have limited memory (256MB in the current incarnations) and no hard drive. No hard drive means no swap file." He loses me here. My iPhone has a 32GB SSD hard drive. Sounds like a perfect medium for swap space to me...
Yeah, that's poor wording. The techie in me was aghast at the idea of Apple shipping iPhones with a full Unixy kernel but with no swap (and minimal background processing -- and for that matter, I wondered why its Objective-C runtime didn't support garbage collection) until I actually laid hands on one and realized how fluid things can be when they don't stutter and stop randomly while swapping in parts of the foregro…
I know some old lights which do that.
I care about multitasking for things which actually need to do stuff in the background, like Pandora or IM clients.
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Best thing about those excuses are: Every other mobile OS supports multitasking and all the smartphones i know have similar battery life. Symbian, Windows, Android, all have multitasking and yet people try to convince me that it, "not needed", "not possible", "makes the device unstable", "drains battery too much" which is just not true. My Android phone lasts at least as long as an iphone and i use multitasking all t…
If I leave an app running in the background that keeps the net connection open on my Nexus One, the battery goes from 100 to 0 in about 5 hours.
> "Both the iPad and iPhone, as mobile devices, have limited memory (256MB in the current incarnations) and no hard drive. No hard drive means no swap file." He loses me here. My iPhone has a 32GB SSD hard drive. Sounds like a perfect medium for swap space to me...
No swap file + no virtual memory + lots of stuff pre-cached onto RAM disk = snappiest user experience ever.
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Best thing about those excuses are: Every other mobile OS supports multitasking and all the smartphones i know have similar battery life. Symbian, Windows, Android, all have multitasking and yet people try to convince me that it, "not needed", "not possible", "makes the device unstable", "drains battery too much" which is just not true. My Android phone lasts at least as long as an iphone and i use multitasking all t…
If I leave an app running in the background that keeps the net connection open on my Nexus One, the battery goes from 100 to 0 in about 5 hours.
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If I leave an app running in the background that keeps the net connection open on my Nexus One, the battery goes from 100 to 0 in about 5 hours.
I'd bet that app was poorly written and doing something else in the background. An app that is just listening for data from an open connection should be using roughly zero CPU. But we'll try science; I've signed into AIM on my Nexus One and left it running in the background. The battery is at 81% now, I'll report back in an hour.