Happy there is no Multitasking in iPhone 3.0?
June 24, 2009 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
iPhone software minus the gesture recognitions has pretty lame features like the lack of copy and paste, linear inbox of text messages and replies, search capability, etc.
The iPhone 3.0 already has a copy and paste functionality however; multi-tasking is not yet allowed. According to Apple, background processing decrease battery performance, it doesn’t allow the iPhone to go to sleep mode, doesn’t allow the iPhone to operate at the lowest power.
With all the excuse, Apple is one of the few companies that dictate what features would come into their products. Unlike Microsoft which dumps everything to users trying to become a vendor for everyone. Apple’s target market is at the high-end but it still doesn’t mean they can cut features as much as they want. Apple is using it’s branding power to silence critics, to silence their consumers and still glorify their products.
How about you? Do you wish the iPhone 3.0 has multi-tasking abilities?
Image from Apple.
this is the single biggest reason i’m not getting an iphone. i have an ipod touch and it drives me nuts when i have to wait for evernote to boot up every time i want to write a quick note.
i understand the battery-life argument, but i find it insulting whenever apple doesn’t give users a feature and then tells us it’s for our own good. why can’t we just manage which apps get notifications, or have one switch to turn off all wifi-using notifications? they’re basically saying that we’re too stupid to understand the vagaries of battery life, and we can’t be trusted to multitask.
to cut off multitasking altogether… maybe it helps battery life, but it cripples pandora and evernote, and if it’s really so bad, why is the iphone the only smartphone that can’t do it? blows my mind.