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Gizmodo: Rumor: iPhone 3.0 Might Let Apps Run in the Background for Real Multitasking [Rumor]
MacMagazine: Será que a Apple voltará atrás e habilitará processos em plano de fundo no iPhone OS?
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis: Apple to allow user-selectable iPhone application to run in background?
Rumor: iPhone 3.0 Might Let Apps Run in the Background for Real Multitasking [Rumor]
Gizmodo —
... , Apple's solution to not allowing apps to run in the background. MacRumors hears that Apple is considering allowing real background processes instead. ...
Será que a Apple voltará atrás e habilitará processos em plano de fundo no iPhone OS?
MacMagazine —
... A solução mais fácil — e que aparentemente já está sendo considerada pela Apple, segundo o MacRumors — é habilitar processos em plano de fundo para os aplicativos. Isso mesmo, os background processes criticados por Scott Forstall durante a última WWDC podem significar o final dessa novela toda, que já dura mais de seis meses. ...
Apple to allow user-selectable iPhone application to run in background?
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... reporting that the rumored iPhone 3.0 OS firmware update may bring with it the ability to run at least a couple user-selected iPhone applications in the background. The iPhone isn’t going to perform well (speed, battery life, stability, etc.) with a dozen applications all vying for a piece of the iPhone’s CPU and battery at the same time. But, the iPhone may be able to handle running a couple iPhone apps at the same time with an acceptable hit to performance.
[Via: MacRumors]
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Apple rumored allowing real background apps on iPhone
AppleInsider —
... Published: 07:05 PM EST After leaving its once-touted background push data feature by the wayside, Apple is now reportedly mulling an option that would let iPhone apps run background processes and give the phone true multitasking. The hint of a change in strategy was given to Mac Rumors , which now hears from unspecified sources that Apple is considering the switch away from its original approach and may let programs operate as "user selectable background processes." Why such a move would occur isn't known. When the iPhone maker first unveiled background push notification ...
Gadget Rumor: iPhone Firmware 3.0 To Allow Background Processes
GadgetReview —
... but this could be the God send many of us AIM users have been waiting for since you could possibly receive IMs without the app running front and center. Anyway, as with all rumors I suggest managing your expectations accordingly. After all, there’s really no indication as to when Apple will release the 3.0 iPhone software update. Of course, you could just Jailbreak your phone right now and enjoy background processes.
[Macrumors]
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Apple iPhone to gain user select background apps feature?
Phones Review —
... problem still remains that these user selected background apps will be limited as the Apple iPhone just isn’t going to perform well with speed, stability and battery life with too many apps all vying for the Apple iPhone CPU and battery.
Having said that there shouldn’t be too much problem with running say two or even three app in the background of your iPhone and should deliver an acceptable hit performance wise. No doubts we’ll see come update time.
Source – macrumors
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Next for iPhone: Multitasking?
Today @ PC World —
... as to whether push notifications are still in the pipes or if the feature has been axed entirely. Site MacRumors offers its own speculation , claiming to have heard rumblings from Apple about an alternate to the push notifications that would allow apps to continue running even after an app is closed. The push notifications would permit third-party apps to notify you of updates even when the app is closed. An instant messaging or scheduling app would benefit greatly from push notifications, since the app could alert you to new messages and events without requiring you to open ...
iPhone OS 3.0 to allow background apps?
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... iPhone 3.0 software update but would be limited to only one or two processes on current hardware. The next generation iPhone, however, would likely see less restricted background process support due to its improved hardware.
A background running IM app, at least, would be extraordinarily welcome on my iPhone, although Pairingo offers that functionality a bit, keeping you logged in on their servers for several minutes even when you've switched out of the app.
Apple to allow background tasks on iPhone [Mac Rumors]
Background Tasks coming to Apple iPhone
D' Technology Weblog —
Apple is considering allowing apps to run as user selectable background processes. If so, this feature would likely come in the rumored iPhone 3.0 software update but would be limited to only one or two processes on current hardware. The next generation iPhone, would likely see less restricted background process support due to its improved hardware.
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Apple's iPhone 3.0: 10 Features That Might Make the Cut
Today @ PC World —
... 4. Copy and Paste Options I suspect almost all iPhone users would get on-board with the idea of added copy, cut, and paste options within the platform. An odd omission in the first place, one would hope this basic ability will appear in the 3.0 release. 5. Background Processing The much-requested multitasking support could actually have a shot in iPhone's 3.0 release. Apple has previously cited the risk of draining too much power and hurting performance as a hurdle for the addition. Rumors as recent as early February , however, suggest that 3.0 could be the turning point. 6. ...
