Now that’s what I call a headline that’s a sight for sore eyes. Further confirmation that we will see some ‘real’ multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0 – i.e with third party apps allowed to run in the background.
The rumors of a greater level of multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0 have been growing for some time, and I really feel this is just about a sure thing now.
Here’s a little more detail from the Apple Insider article:
Those familiar with the design of iPhone 4.0 said that the user interface will resemble Apple’s desktop Expose feature, in that a key combination — reportedly hitting the Home button twice — will trigger an expose-like interface that brings up a series of icons representing the currently running apps, allowing users to quickly select the one they want to switch to directly. When a selection is made, the iPhone OS zooms out of the Expose task manager and transitions to that app.
On the iPhone, scaling down several screen views to fit into the relatively small display would be problematic, and apps never have multiple windows, so the new mechanism currently presents just each app’s icon. This renders the feature more similar to the basic Command+Tab app switcher than Expose itself as a desktop feature, but people who’ve been privy to pre-release builds of the iPhone 4.0 OS say it exhibits several characteristics of the Expose brand.
Very good stuff. For lots more detail, see the Apple Insider report here:
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TAGS: iPhone OS 4.0, mulittasking on iPhone
