Re:Apple to Allow Background Tasks on iPhone?
by wmf on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @03:54PM
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Hopefully they will cap processor utilization of background apps so they still work without sucking power.
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Re:Apple to Allow Background Tasks on iPhone?
by iigs on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @04:49PM
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My experience with a Blackberry was that background data (polling, tcp keepalives) were the worst of the battery draining. Unfortunately that kind of stuff would work better with a notification API.
At one time UNIXes were all about time sharing and quotas. I think bringing some of that back (certainly with different controls and interfaces) would be beneficial.