04-08-2010, 11:18 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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Multitasking gives me a tentpole.
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04-08-2010, 11:19 AM
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Scoring Winger
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Multitasking FTMFW.
Finally...
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04-08-2010, 11:20 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Wait, is this real multitasking, or just apppauseandswitching?
Can I have an app running in the background doing something else?
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04-08-2010, 11:24 AM
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Dances with Wolves
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^^ looks like that's what pandora is doing.
7 tentpole features? C'mon for the love of god wireless sync has to be in there!
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04-08-2010, 11:24 AM
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First Line Centre
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Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
Wait, is this real multitasking, or just apppauseandswitching?
Can I have an app running in the background doing something else?
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Yup, the example they use is pandora playing music in the background while you do something else.
Even allows pandora to use the lock-screen ipod controls: wicked.
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04-08-2010, 11:24 AM
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Scoring Winger
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This is for real background multitasking... I'm actually impressed.
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04-08-2010, 11:25 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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Ah ok, so they expose a limited set of APIs that are available to an app while it is in the background?
That doesn't seem to be all of it, while Pandora can use the background sound API, the app itself still has to be able to do stuff.. stream the data, get the next song, etc.
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04-08-2010, 11:26 AM
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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Seems like a bit of a limited multi-tasking. The full app probably isn't running in the background, but certain services do.
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04-08-2010, 11:27 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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I should have thought of this, this is a very Apple-esque way of doing the multitasking.
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04-08-2010, 11:28 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Calgary
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Skype running in the background will be awesome.
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04-08-2010, 11:28 AM
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by kermitology
Seems like a bit of a limited multi-tasking. The full app probably isn't running in the background, but certain services do.
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How can Pandora stream if it isn't fully running? We aren't talking about the iPod audio playing from off your phone, this has to be streaming data as well...
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04-08-2010, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by kermitology
Seems like a bit of a limited multi-tasking. The full app probably isn't running in the background, but certain services do.
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probably all you need, since you can only view one app at a time anyway. We'll see I suppose.
You don't really need the whole app running, just the stuff that you would want running in the background.
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04-08-2010, 11:29 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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How can Pandora stream if it isn't fully running? We aren't talking about the iPod audio playing from off your phone, this has to be streaming data as well...
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Exactly.. background data must also be one of the services.
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04-08-2010, 11:31 AM
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Dances with Wolves
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Holy crap you could get turn by turn nav instructions while using OTW!
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04-08-2010, 11:35 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Vibrate the phone on local notifications please, and have it so you can set it to vibrate until you acknowledge the notification. Like when I miss a call but I don't know I have because I haven't looked at my phone.
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04-08-2010, 11:36 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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More tentpoles!
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04-08-2010, 11:36 AM
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Dances with Wolves
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boom!
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04-08-2010, 11:36 AM
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Scoring Winger
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So... Correct me if I am wrong... But it seems that apple deconstructed the idea of multitasking, identified what it is we like about multitasking, then built something to retain those core features.
This isn't really multitasking, but will have all the benefits without the battery drain.
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04-08-2010, 11:38 AM
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Voted for Kodos
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So... Correct me if I am wrong... But it seems that apple deconstructed the idea of multitasking, identified what it is we like about multitasking, then built something to retain those core features.
This isn't really multitasking, but will have all the benefits without the battery drain.
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That's pretty much how I understand it.
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04-08-2010, 11:38 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by anyonebutedmonton
So... Correct me if I am wrong... But it seems that apple deconstructed the idea of multitasking, identified what it is we like about multitasking, then built something to retain those core features.
This isn't really multitasking, but will have all the benefits without the battery drain.
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Exactly.. which is very Apple-esque. They decide what is useful and give that to you 
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