Ihpone on Steroids to IT G5?

2009-03-12 Thread John Holmblad
All, the post at the www page whose url is http://www.thestreet.com/story/10470711/1/rim-apple-feast-on-nokia.html frames the experience I had today. While seated at a luncheon following a technical meeting (Cisco/VMware/Netapp/etc) I duly noted that I was among a crowd (that would be

Re: Ihpone on Steroids to IT G5?

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin T. Neely
they likely don't care about multi-tasking until you give a concrete example of a multi-tasking scenario: say, listening to mp3s while using IM. Or, switching between browsing, IM, and [your favourite iPhone app here]. concepts like multi-tasking tend to go over most people's heads until an exam

Re: Ihpone on Steroids to IT G5?

2009-03-12 Thread John Holmblad
Kevin, agreed. A more indepth discussion with some of those other users would have provided the opportunity to reveal that value associated with a Linux based mobile device. Now I have to wonder, does the iphone OS support multitasking?Is it a stripped down version of OS X? I;ll do some readin

Re: Ihpone on Steroids to IT G5?

2009-03-13 Thread kenneth marken
John Holmblad wrote: > Kevin, > > agreed. A more indepth discussion with some of those other users would > have provided the opportunity to reveal that value associated with a > Linux based mobile device. > > Now I have to wonder, does the iphone OS support multitasking?Is it a > stripped down

Re: Ihpone on Steroids to IT G5?

2009-03-13 Thread Brad Midgley
John > all this most likely done to keep the battery drain to a minimum... This is one of Apple's mantras, but the primary motivation for the arbitrary limitations is to maintain tight control over the platform. -- Brad Midgley ___ maemo-users mailing