Saturday, April 17, 2010

iPhone OS 4.0 and Multitasking

Daniel Eran Dilger has written a great article for AppleInsider covering the multitasking features for the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad.

My last concern regarding multitasking on my phone and iPad is the ability of my remote systems management tools to survive being placed in the background. I suspect/hope that the Task Completion API will allow RDC or SSH tools to continue to maintain their network connections while I switch to other applications (hello, MyKeePass, if I could only get it to download my password database).

On the other hand, I'm finding that having an iPad and an iPhone at the same time addresses some of my multitasking needs so it won't be a total loss if Task Completion doesn't do the trick.

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