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- i used the iphone for around 6 months and its an excellent phone but yes i cant really run two apps at once. but id still probably stick with it if it somehow magically had a sliding keyboard without adding to its dimensions.06-27-09 11:40 PMLike 0
- What's the big deal about multitasking on the iPhone anyway? I see the advantage on Desktop systems, but on a mobile Platform I just don't see the point and I have tried it all: Nokia S60, S80, Windows mobile, Palm and Android.
The only thing that Multitasking does for me is keeping things more complicated since I have to look after the open apps constantly, to "clean up". Because if I don't the memory will be hogged and the device gets slowed down.
I am personally comfortable with the solution Apple offers, the transition between apps is very fluid and with push being enabled in OS 3.0 I don't notice any missing functionality at all.
Greetings,
Rene
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com06-28-09 03:14 AMLike 0 - So what would you define as a power user?
I use my BB 9000 to organize my daily life and I am working as a Key Account Manager for a Retail Industry supplier. I have something like 250 appointments in there, I use task lists with currently about 45 to-do's on it, have 542 contacts on my BB, have my mail pushed (driving me nuts sometimes). I use it to make calls, check my facebook account, text to friends all over the world. I do my market surveys aka "spying" using Excel on my BB. I read my books on it using eReader and have a nice bit of music on it. I use BBM to stay in touch with the guys at work. I use a Nav solution to get me to my clients all over Europe.
None of those tasks is greatly simplified by multi-tasking. (Besides such things as the phone being able to ring while your Nav is running.) But the iPhone can do that too. So again, what's the big deal.? Explain it to me please!
I love the long battery life and the fact that you can just put in a new one if you run out. I love the Bold's keyboard. I like the design.
So could you please elaborate what I am missing out on being a power user?
All I am saying is that today's mobile devices are not quite ready for multi-tasking yet. Like I said I also see the sense of it in a Desktop platform, but not in a mobile device. Due to physical limitations like screen size and interface restrictions you will always be able to do one thing after another. Human beings are not designed with multi-tasking in mind and that's the greatest restriction of it all. The closest I get to multi-tasking is to look up my agenda while having someone on speaker.
So please tell me where the lack of full multi-tasking is a hindrance in a normal persons life? (And just assuming that I don't know what I am talking about isn't good style. Give me a practical example.)
Greetings ,
Archer
Let's get that flame war rolling
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.comLast edited by tyroleanarcher; 06-28-09 at 06:05 AM.
06-28-09 06:01 AMLike 0 - The ability to have a browser open, a game open, a memo pad open, a weather app open, a gps app open, all at the time is pretty damn convienent. If you can't see the value in that then fine. Opening and closing one app at a time is a pathetic waste of time and a joke. It falls in the face of years of the quest for multi tasking operating systems and applications. This reason alone is key to the bb platforms superior functionality.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com06-28-09 07:08 AMLike 0 - The ability to have a browser open, a game open, a memo pad open, a weather app open, a gps app open, all at the time is pretty damn convienent. If you can't see the value in that then fine. Opening and closing one app at a time is a pathetic waste of time and a joke. It falls in the face of years of the quest for multi tasking operating systems and applications. This reason alone is key to the bb platforms superior functionality.
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I actually find it sort of dumb how you have to manually scroll through the list of open apps and manually shut them down one at a time, wish RIM would put in a shut down all apps at once button besides the 5 that are always running. That would be sweet.06-28-09 10:58 AMLike 0 -
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com06-28-09 01:51 PMLike 0 -
being able to have Score Mobile (keep track of PGA), Epsn (keep track of the Reds), my car club's forum open ( to talk, chat with buddies), and check up on CB.com, is pretty flipping sweet. And to the poster above about "humans not multitasking" lungs working, heart beating, using your legs to walk upright, using your mouth to talk with friends,l and use that some mouth to drink a smoothie- not to mention using your hands to control that smoothie. all at the same time sounds like multitasking to me. The plain and simple fact is the majority of people that know the Blackberry can multitask, use it. And if you don't like it - don't use it, but don't take it away for those of us that do use it.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.comLast edited by mjneid; 06-28-09 at 02:07 PM.
06-28-09 02:05 PMLike 0 - I had no intention to take anything away as you put it. I made a statement of my own personal preference and opinion. And that humans are not multi-taskers with their thinking process is a scientifically proven fact. Try it for yourself: stand on your right leg, lift the left a leg and start making circles with it the way the clock goes.. Easy enough. Now try to do the same thing with your right arm but then counter-clockwise. Oops, what's that? No can do? Nobody can, because the human brain lacks the processing power to give all those commands at the same time. What you mention: breathing, your heartbeat are not happening due to an effort of your mind. You can't drink AND talk at the same time - at least not without a serious breach of etiquette.
What the human brain does is switch from one task to another real quick, but they are worked at one at a time and not really simultaneously.
So the real limiting factor nowadays is the human brain. Not technical hardware.
And yes, you can have all those apps open and even more, but not without an impact on the performance of your device. Not yet feasible.
All I am saying is that the iPhones way of handling processes resembles the natural way much mor: you do it one after another but then really quick. And seriously: you think it makes a difference in your life if it takes 2-5 seconds for an app to open in comparison to the 1-2 seconds you need to switch between apps? In your whole life of an assumed 90 years these 3 seconds per time amount to maybe a whole 24 hours.
Consider all the hours you spent in traffic jams in your life, now that is a waste of time!
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com06-29-09 04:22 PMLike 0 - I had no intention to take anything away as you put it. I made a statement of my own personal preference and opinion. And that humans are not multi-taskers with their thinking process is a scientifically proven fact. Try it for yourself: stand on your right leg, lift the left a leg and start making circles with it the way the clock goes.. Easy enough. Now try to do the same thing with your right arm but then counter-clockwise. Oops, what's that? No can do? Nobody can, because the human brain lacks the processing power to give all those commands at the same time. What you mention: breathing, your heartbeat are not happening due to an effort of your mind. You can't drink AND talk at the same time - at least not without a serious breach of etiquette.
What the human brain does is switch from one task to another real quick, but they are worked at one at a time and not really simultaneously.
So the real limiting factor nowadays is the human brain. Not technical hardware.
And yes, you can have all those apps open and even more, but not without an impact on the performance of your device. Not yet feasible.
All I am saying is that the iPhones way of handling processes resembles the natural way much mor: you do it one after another but then really quick. And seriously: you think it makes a difference in your life if it takes 2-5 seconds for an app to open in comparison to the 1-2 seconds you need to switch between apps? In your whole life of an assumed 90 years these 3 seconds per time amount to maybe a whole 24 hours.
Consider all the hours you spent in traffic jams in your life, now that is a waste of time!
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com06-29-09 04:48 PMLike 0
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