Re: [NTLK] OT Palm Pre

I should clarify: …engineers / developers making a decision not to
allow *3rd party* background applications. These two things are
fundamentally separate.

My bad for leaving out "3rd party" in that line.

-DME

On Jul 21, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Mr. David M. Ensteness wrote:

> Afternoon Ryan,
>
> I don't think anyone is disagreeing that Apple does not presently
> allow 3rd party applications to run in the background and I think
> most would agree that there is an increased level of functionality
> to be found in allowing 3rd party applications to run in the
> background. There are also potential concerns regarding system
> performance, UI responsiveness, HW resources available, battery
> runtime, etc to be weighed against this. From my brief look at this
> discussion it appears no one is arguing about those things, for my
> own part I was interjecting that there is a very large difference
> between an OS not supporting multitasking and engineers / developers
> making a decision not to allow background applications. These two
> things are fundamentally separate.
>
> It isn't limited multitasking, that ignores technical facts about
> the operating system. Sorta like claiming the functionality of APIs
> not available to 3rd parties do not exist, that would be … untrue.
>
> -DME
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Ryan Vetter wrote:

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