iPhone OS 4.0

[Pyroka]

Whats stupid is First Gen Owners (Who paid the most for their devices) seem to get nothing. Despite the fact they are more than capable of all of the features, except perhaps multi-tasking.

Business is vicious, and Apple know that people are going to buy their products no matter what.

[Recursion]

Personally cannot wait to get my new Android upgrade, should make my iPT 2nd Gen redundant

[HotelUser]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/m...iphone-os-4-0/

You heard that right, people -- iPhone OS 4 just brought multitasking to the platform! Apple says they've figured out how to implement third party multitasking without hurting performance or battery life, and they're demoing it now -- you just double click the home button and see a list of your apps, and you can just tap to switch between apps. The system actually runs the services apps need in the background -- the apps don't need to do them individually, so it's not a "true" multitasking system, but it seems plenty effective. There are seven services: background audio, which allows you to use the standard pop-over iPod controls, Voice over IP, which can receive calls in the background, location services for GPS and social networking (there's an indicator if any service is tracking you), updated push notifications with local notifications, task completion so you can finish things like uploads in the background, and fast app switching, which lets apps sleep and resume instantly. Notably missing? Anything for managing a conversation, like IM or Twitter, which is a big omission. Win some, lose some, we suppose.

Update: Here's a big "lose some" -- only the iPhone 3GS and 3rd generation (late 2009) iPod touch will support multitasking. The iPhone 3G and below won't -- Steve says the hardware doesn't support it. Sad face.

score.

[DaveTaylor]

My developer account is going to take 24 hours to activate as I forgot to renew it last month, stupid Apple monitoring everything now :/.

[MrPinkPanther]

I take it that I am the first one with 4.0 then? Yey!

[Luke]

I can't afford a developers account

[iJoe]

as if my phone isn't capable of muti-tasking -_-

Meh I've not read it all but multi-tasking is a pretty big thing not to give us just to hope we'll upgrade, getting a bit greedy I think Mr Jobs!

[danzooo]

Totally new iPhone software = totally new iPhone v. soon

It's unfortunate mine won't be able to multitask - I only have a 3G

[Blinger1]

And that's why I jailbreak, such simple things get left out for me (iPhone 3G user)

[StefanWolves]

i use an iphone 3g and am a bit dissapointed that i won't be getting multi-tasking... but my upgrade is due in the summer, and so i will be getting the new iphone that will be released in the summer, so it won't affect me, the next iPhone promises to be a cracker.