Posts Tagged ‘multitasking’

Engadget are reporting that developers can submit apps that run in the background for iOS 4 now.  They seem to be confirming that IM/IRC type background apps still aren’t possible though.  Sadly, among the list of non-backgroundable (not really a word) are Instapaper and by extension Byline article and RSS reader apps as I suspected. […]


App Chronicles have an article entitled Multitasking is overrated that I couldn’t disagree more with.  A few of the highlights for me: “How could they design a tablet that only ran one app at a time? No one will want a tablet device that doesn’t multitask! And here we are now: two months after launch […]