Apple gives a UM shoutout during iPhone OS Demo
So during the demo for iAd today Steve Jobs was showing a Target ad and out of all the schools he could select he went with Michigan.
There are pictures if you scroll down to the 10:59PM mark.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/live-from-apples-iphone-os-4-event/?…
to go to Michigan; After all, he is the leader and the best. Btw, my six year old just did a drawing on her teachers new iPad and emailed it to me. Both the drawing, and the fact that my kid has worked on an iPad before me were equally awesome.
...multitasking is huge. Apple just keeps killing it.
Considering that you can *already* do any of the following at the same time on an Android the iphone multi-tasking looks weak:
- listen to pandora
- get driving directions via Google Nav and interrupt pandora to give turn instructions
- talk to someone over bluetooth and interrupt the nav guidance
not to mention you can always get chat messages, etc. in the background. iphone's attempt at multi-tasking still seems weak.
I just laugh at their commercials where they are making such a big deal out of being able to have a phone conversation and then look something up at the same time. Shit, I could do that back on my crappy Palm Centro.
I don't think that's meant to be a comment on the superiority of the iPhone as much as a dig at Verizon's network. The technology Verizon uses for their network doesn't allow simultaneous data & voice transmission, whereas the GSM network AT&T uses does.
It does everything that you list but also does more (flash freezes any game) and it doesn't allow the app to continue to eat the processor alive by utilizing the APIs. So, it does everything the Android multi-tasking does but it does it more efficiently - I'm not sure how that's "weak."
Yes nice to see Apple has decided to get with the program in that regard. I can't wait for them to pimp this out as some amazing feature when other phones have had it for some time now.
The way they go about multi-tasking is new. They don't just leave the apps running at full RAM and processor power in the background while you jump from app to app - they utilize the code to freeze the state of the game or whatever else you're using while still allowing for audio, navigation services, notifications, VOIP as opposed to the Android, MS, Palm and every other implementation of it that's just like a computer - leaving things running and allowing them to fully tax the hardware even if you aren't actively using it.
It's the APIs that make it unique and more efficient - maybe the end user doesn't care but eventually if you leave enough stuff running every other phone is going to slow down because it doesn't have the juice - this way you can have as many apps open as you want w/ no risk of degradation to the user experience.
I too am a dude interested in music and going to Michigan... I must get an iPhone...
couldn't he have worked in a block M? :)
Is a smart man.