03.22.08

iPhone 2.0 SDK: The No Multitasking Myth

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Apple has a responsibility to iPhone users to develop guidelines that ensure that the system continues to work as expected, doesn’t overheat, and doesn’t plunge in battery life as new applications are installed. Not allowing third party developers to install background processes is part of that plan. It would be irresponsible for Apple to kick open the floodgates for developers and then blame users for not understanding how to manage their own process allocation within the iPhone’s thermal envelope and resource constraints. #

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2 Responses to “iPhone 2.0 SDK: The No Multitasking Myth”  

  1. Gravatar Icon Jeremy Splogmaker Mar 24th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Hi. Nice post. Jez

  2. Gravatar Icon Sebbi Mar 30th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    Well it’s irresponsible from apple to think their users are dumb and try to tell developers what kind of applications they’d like to have. The current SDK only allows for glorified local versions of the existing iphone webapplications. It doesn’t allow any program that add’s new functionality like more bluetooth profiles, reading out the sim card, displaying toolbar icons, last.fm’s music logging, etc. Hopefully the final firmware will eventually be hacked too and we can use the interesting stuff (software that is able to use the hardware as is) on 2.0, too …


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