You know, as good news as this is, it really makes it even more of a shame that there will never be background apps on the iPhone. What use is a VOIP app that people can call you on, if you have to have it open constantly to work? Not even push notifications would work here.
You always have to open any application to work on it. The push version would simply notify you when an incoming call was coming in, and open the app accordingly. Yes, there will be a delay to open the app and connect but I doubt it would be more than the latency on existing cellular calls.
The real pain comes when trying to replace the existing background app: ipod. Being able to listen to streaming music is worthless unless you can send an email whilst doing so. Also, GPS apps take a while to get a lock and this would be another example of where backgrounding is useful.
Yeah but I can imagine with multitasking OS, its just like with Windows, where if you're working on Photoshop and someone phones you on Skype, even if the program is minimised and not "open" it would be able to leap to the front and alert you. Its a real shame something like that isn't possible on the iPhone at all.
I haven't really fully understood *how* push works, but the way I've broadly gathered, I don't think it would be possible to have a VOIP call be received via Push.
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You know, as good news as this is, it really makes it even more of a shame that there will never be background apps on the iPhone. What use is a VOIP app that people can call you on, if you have to have it open constantly to work? Not even push notifications would work here.
*sigh*
You always have to open any application to work on it. The push version would simply notify you when an incoming call was coming in, and open the app accordingly. Yes, there will be a delay to open the app and connect but I doubt it would be more than the latency on existing cellular calls.
The real pain comes when trying to replace the existing background app: ipod. Being able to listen to streaming music is worthless unless you can send an email whilst doing so. Also, GPS apps take a while to get a lock and this would be another example of where backgrounding is useful.
Yeah but I can imagine with multitasking OS, its just like with Windows, where if you're working on Photoshop and someone phones you on Skype, even if the program is minimised and not "open" it would be able to leap to the front and alert you. Its a real shame something like that isn't possible on the iPhone at all.
I haven't really fully understood *how* push works, but the way I've broadly gathered, I don't think it would be possible to have a VOIP call be received via Push.