http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/ Engadget Comments for Apple rumor twofer: Expose-like multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0, international iPad launch on April 24th http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
well good, at least Palm can shut up now with their pre/pixi multitasking.

iPhone rulez!]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
Ah statistics nerds, how I love ye.]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/In Settings, you can actually choose what you want that double-tap to do, but apparently opening the iPod controls is the most common setting.]]>Mar 31st 2010 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
Why not just jailbreak?

I can browse and call my favorites using coverflow from the lockscreen]]>Mar 31st 2010 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/On the topic of statistics. What are the statistics that the iPad would be sold on Amazon?]]>Mar 31st 2010 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Apr 1st 2010 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://bit.ly/iphone-4g-verizon-updates]]>Apr 1st 2010 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Apr 1st 2010 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
Bear in mind the new iPhone has to be pretty special if Apple are planning on continuing their yearly update cycle. Look how much things have changed in the past year. Apple has really good implementation (takes it's time to come up with though), but comes terribly short on features and functionality.]]>Mar 31st 2010 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
But remember multi-tasking is for geeks and grandma couldn't care less.

Also how much you want to bet we never hear that sentence again or any of the 10000 excuses why multi tasking was such a stupid idea up until half-past now.

]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Dunno. I still don't use copy & paste. I think I've used it perhaps 2 or 3 times since the 3.0 software came out. It was another one of those "OMG MUST HAVE" features that appeals to some folks because they want/need it but the bigger market may not care much. I also have an Android phone which I can't even figure out how to copy & paste on at all. No big loss. ]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
So true. I'll pick up my friend's Blackberry... and she's got apps running that she has no idea are still running.

The calculator from 2 days ago... the maps and GPS from a trip 2 weeks ago.

And she wonders why her Blackberry runs slow...]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
It was a bad idea because it would lead to worse battery life and sluggish performance, etc. Apple still has to address these issues, Expose or no Expose.

]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
I fully expect all you iPhone owners that have been screaming until you're blue about how multitasking is evil to throw your phones away after this update.

But on a serious side, look for Stevo to dub this with a moniker other than "multitasking" since he has previously discounted it.]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
Or just not use the new multitasking feature if there is one.]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Isn't that the story of every Apple user? I bet when Apple introduces higher resolution screens on the Macbooks this summer, the same guys who hated high res. will start loving it!]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
What this actually sounds like is Backgrounder + Kirikae.]]>Mar 31st 2010 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
Honestly. Give it up. it does multi-task already. and the multi-tasking you gloat about, geeks usually cry for it. Push notifications has done enough to satiate most users.

If you nuts were actually happy with your device why do you trolls insist on constantly attacking the iPhone. Seriously if thats how you act, why would anybody want to be identified with you.

The key to multi-tasking on a 3 inch screen is a well thought out interface. it is not a desktop. So the approach has to be different. So far Palms methodology beats out Androids multitasking. We'll see how Apple's attempt fair, but please shut the hell up with the catch up business. Because all of these devices are leap frogging each other. So your statement is stupid. there will always be a better device in the future.]]>Mar 31st 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
LMFAO...once again you get owned!

LAY you truly are pathetic.

Here's my stance on multitasking which I've said a MILLION times. It will NOT change regardless of how many times you LIE and try to generalize all Apple supporters/fanboys.

I think multitasking is not essential on a phone. I don't miss it on my 3GS and if its on the iPhone HD I honestly will NOT care. It's not a feature that's do or die. And that goes for your average consumer. It obviously didn't mean shit to the 44 million people who have bought iPhones already.

And it clearly doesn't mean shit to MS who isn't implementing it right off the bat in WP7S.

So what exactly is your point here? To date I haven't see any Apple supporter do a 180 on any opinion regarding the iPhone.

Copy & Paste? Again it wasn't anything major. I wasn't crying at night when it wasn't there. And now that is a feature I don't even use it that much. The same for picture test messaging.

These are just a few of the features that you Apple HATERS keep bitching about on the internet but no one in real life cares.

Keep fighting that losing battle you bitter old fool. If you truly hated the iPhone and thought it was useless and were satisfied with YOUR phone (droid or w/e shitty and slow android device you're rocking these days) you wouldn't be trolling yet ANOTHER Apple post.

The truth of the matter is the iPhone is still hands down the most user friendly phone on the market and overall the best and most successful phone out there. And that fact KILLS you.

Just wait till the iPad #'s come rolling in.]]>Mar 31st 2010 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
Yes... Blackberries have a task manager too... but not everyone knows about it or how it works.... or why they should close programs, or anything like that.

I like your screen name though... but why are you reading an article that is CLEARLY about Apple?]]>Mar 31st 2010 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/]]>Apr 1st 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
for once?]]>Mar 31st 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/he MUST have been being sarcastic.]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
right. sarcasm doesn't always translate the way it should online.]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/+1

To everyone else, yes, let's pretend every other company hasn't been trying to catch up with the experience of iPhone OS 1.1.4 for the past 3 years, and they FINALLY managed to and surpassed (though STILL failing to do so in some respects) just recently. ]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
"Catch up" maybe one description of adding multitasking. Going lemming-like over the cliff might be another. I'm considering this rumor as a lemming action unless Apple has come up with a mechanism that allows applications to run in the background but does not require the user to manually close them when they take up too much resources or misbehave.]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
See already implemented what is good about Android (CnP, widgets, push, multitasking), it's now to take what's good about WP7S.]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Multi-tasking has been around for 30+ years. Apple's Expose has been around since 2004. It's nothing new. You mention WM7 yet the Palm Pre has a very similar feature also. Why not mention that instead of citing the origin as WM7 which isn't even out yet? ]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
Also Android doesn't have anything like push notifications or multitasking the way the iPhone does/will. Push notifications on Android for example lack an OS wide persistent connection so each app has to do it. ]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
All WP7S does is what the iPhone has done since 1.0. It sends notifications to apps being terminated to allow them to save the current user's state. The idea is that when you launch that app again you go back to the same state.

It is a neat trick to make it look like multitasking but it absolutely isn't. ]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
"or multitasking the way the iPhone does/will"

Inform us O Knowledgeable One]]>Mar 31st 2010 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
In fairness, Windows Phone 7 Series does exactly the same as the iPhone OS, it seems, when it comes to multitasking. The OS is indeed doing the usual preemptive multitasking but this only extends to 1st party applications built into the device, so you can play music in the background but you can't leave Facebook running. As best as I can tell it doesn't do anything different to the current iPhone OS and that's fine by me.

If multitasking really was important to customers then I am quite certain that WP7S would have implemented it on Day 1. All the usual bitching and moaning about how the iPhone sucks because it doesn't allow 3rd party applications to run in the background just goes to show how much Engadget commenters "don't get it".]]>Apr 1st 2010 5:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
So either they have spent the last 9 months dramatically reducing the amount of memory the frameworks use or multitasking will be 3GS/iPad only. My guess is that they iPhone 4.0 itself will be overhauled to be far less heavy on the CPU (probably by deferring as much as possible to OpenCL).]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/Mar 31st 2010 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/apple-rumor-twofer-expose-like-multitasking-in-iphone-os-4-0-i/
Cool story bro.

I'm also still getting the EVO 4G.]]>Mar 31st 2010 7:51PM