Comments on: Apple to Allow Limited Background Multi-Tasking for Apps in iPhone 3.0?

By: Dave Jackson

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By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:29:00 +0000

@frog:

What's the difference whether one receives calls or receives voicemails? People can already choose not to answer their phones.

By: frog

frog — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:23:17 +0000

Steve: if Apple allow customers to run MLB in the background in exchange for not being able to receive phone calls – I’ll eat my iPhone!

By: fassy

fassy — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:26:46 +0000

I would be surprised to see this right away – except perhaps for select test partner apps like Google latitude – because I would expect Apple at the very least would release APIs so an app can respond to going foreground-> background and vice-versa, to conserve resources. They also seem the type of company who would set guidelines, if not restrict what can be called, for being a well-behaved background app. It will eventually happen, but not right away for 3.0.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:57:12 +0000

Why is it so hard to believe his could be true? Apple could simply allow us to choose one or two 3rd party apps to run in the background in exchange for using the iPod and phone in the background.

For example, if one wants to use BeejiveIM and MLB in the background, they couldn't listen to the iPod or receive calls. That would leave the RAM issue basically the way it already is now.

By: Appleking

Appleking — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:03:58 +0000

Ha apple now wanna do it because the pre has done it well. The sling player issue already has me leaving wack ass at&t to sprint for the pre.

By: Milo

Milo — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:12:05 +0000

Sounds good. Hopefully the iPhone won’t lag like hell though

By: Tim Lems

Tim Lems — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:13:49 +0000

This report could have some truth for the following reason- google latitude! Google announced ages ago there would be a app for the iPhone, but now we are months later, and still nothing! What is google waiting for? I think they might have convinced apple to let it run in the background on 3.0! I believe apple will choose what apps we can run in the background, at least it is something.

By: Danny Rodri

Danny Rodri — Sat, 16 May 2009 05:18:29 +0000

Apple Approving Apps to be able to run in the background?

Yeah right I think this would only help fuel the current controversy about Apple not approving apps to the store. That's what we need more angry developers arguing why their app didn't get approved to run in the background and another one with similar functions did.

Just a thought.

By: cardfan

cardfan — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:55:51 +0000

aint happening..

By: Rajiv

Rajiv — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:53:40 +0000

Why doesn’t Apple limit the total number of apps that can be run in the background (say, two or three) instead of picking-and-choosing which apps to allow? Perhaps giving the end-user freedom-of-choice would be a better decision.

By: Kevin Starks

Kevin Starks — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:45:32 +0000

@Jason

Good point but 3rd party apps can't read or write to others apps therefore even if Apple were to allow that app background processes the Bluetooth keyboard still wouldn't be able to work outside of that app.

This is why you don't have enter a pin when connecting to Bluetooth in 3.0 because Apple knows there will be alot of connecting and disconnecting when switching between apps.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:53:57 +0000

@Drake

Why do you need Twitter running in the background? If the Push notification service works the way it's supposed to, that would be all Twitter needs.

Streaming audio apps like Pandora, MLB At Bat, and Public Radio are the apps that really need to run in the background. Also, I think this would open up the possibility for a third party to build support for a universal BT keyboard with the new API. Sell it with a free app that integrated with the phone, have it running in the background, and you have a BT keyboard without Apple doing anything new.

By: Dionte

Dionte — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:50:40 +0000

They should allow it and just let people chose which ones they want to run themselves, were big boys and girls, if we notice our battery is draining quick or phone is lagging we can chose to cut back which ones we run

By: Drake

Drake — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:49:15 +0000

I’ve been wondering if they would allow certain devs to apply and they could get it OR allow a few apps to run. Hopefully Apple will. Tweetie and Pandora in the background would be awesome!

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:08:38 +0000

Allowing background apps would be huge for the enterprise user. It would allow for Goodlink and would permit me to add the iPhone to our list of “approved” enterprise devices.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:52:21 +0000

From being a previous jailbreaker I know that my only app that I want ro run in the background is f-stream and I know that the current hardware setup can (just about) handle it… I’m sure that apple can implement something!

By: Kills

Kills — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:33:41 +0000

I would love to be able to have the MLB app running in the background. It sucks when I have to relaunch it after each time I get an SMS

By: josh

josh — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:31:55 +0000

i gotta say. i hope this gets thoroughly tested first. lag and 'spinning hour glass' hang-ups are one of the main reasons i'm sick of BB and looking to convert. if Apple allows background processes to run, i'd hate to see them hinder the iPhone's reputation for a dependable OS.

i tried using a 3rd party app on my BB last night to simply send an MMS photo to my wife. between the lag from background programs (google sync, viigo updates) and battery-pulls, it took nearly 20 minutes to complete. rediculous... before you ask, yes, i've switched to 'manual updates' from now on.

By: j

Fri, 15 May 2009 21:14:52 +0000

yes, please. while most apps would do just as well with PNS, there are few like pandora, that have no use for notifications.

By: TosaDeac

TosaDeac — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:14:05 +0000

I think the idea of a dock with spots for ANY third party Apps to run in the background, but if they do it a different way and make it a SECOND application process it is just going to open up a bigger can of worms