[X4U] iPad news

[Zane H. Healy]

So it isn't even like the .... (the name escapes me) feature prior to 
System 7 that allowed background processes?  It is simply Apple 
crippling the OS?

Zane



At 6:56 PM -0500 1/29/10, Judi Sohn wrote:
>Exactly. Apple allows multi-tasking for their own apps only. So you
>can play music from the iPod app while doing other things, but not
>from Pandora for example.
>
>On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Christopher Collins
><maclist at analogdigital.com.au> wrote:
>>  Rod,
>>  Playing music in the background while you fetch email IS multi-tasking!
>>  cjc
>>  On 30/01/2010, at 10:35 AM, Rod Buchanan wrote:
>>
>>  On Jan 29, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>>
>>  In a newspaper in Belgium is an article about the iPad.  It's called "The
>>  flop of the year."
>>
>>  They'll wait for iPad2.  Their complaints: Flash, multitasking, Led screen,
>>  no camera, virtual keyboard.
>>
>>  What is the big deal about multitasking?  I've owned three iPod Touches and
>>  the lack of multitasking has never been an issue to me.  I plays music in
>>  the background, fetches email, ...
>>
>>  Maybe it would be handy on the iPhone, I don't have/can't use one.  It'll be
>>  a cold day in Hell when AT&T finally makes their way where I live.
>>
>>  So what am I missing WRT multitasking?
>>
>>  --
>>  Rod
>>
>>
>>
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