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Background Processes Coming In 3.0 iPhone Software?

Submitted by Michael Johnston on February 3, 2009 - 12:09pm.
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At WWDC, Apple announced that they would be providing developers with a "push notification" service, allowing them to notify users of new data without having to keep said app running. The solution would be a perfect fit for twitter, instant message, and other such applications. It was supposed to be available last September, although we haven't heard anything on the service since its announcement.

According to MacRumors, Apple may be considering background processes after all.

All third party applications are currently not allowed to run in the background. Once you return to the home screen, every third party application is required to be completely shut down. Apple made this choice to protect the phone from complications which could arise from a lack of memory in the device and poorly written code.

However as MacRumors points out, something is holding up push notifications. They're not sure what it might be, although they've heard that Apple may allow several third-party applications to run background processes. The processes would be user-selected and would likely come as a part of the rumored 3.0 software update. MacRumors also believes that the next generation iPhone would be less restrictive due to improved hardware capabilities.

Background proccesses

Submitted by chaddesignsndev on February 3, 2009 - 2:15pm.
Ain't that the iPhone needs for a copy and paste?

Submitted by Stephen007 on February 3, 2009 - 4:56pm.
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Ain't that the iPhone needs for a copy and paste?
True copy & paste should probably be implemented by Apple directly in the OS. But yes, you're right that copy & paste needs to IMO run as a background process. The problem is that even if you could download a legit app that ran in the background to copy & paste it would be taking data from other applications. I'm sure that's not allowed in the SDK.

Submitted by hal128 on February 3, 2009 - 9:59pm.
Exciting! I hope so. I'd bet the economy is holding up push notifications. Apple probably learned their lesson the hard way with MobileMe. They're not Google; they suck at online stuff like that. It's way cheaper and smarter to just let the iPhone check stuff itself, but I bet it'll KILL the battery

Sweet!

Submitted by asmanthebell on March 7, 2009 - 6:13am.
About time Apple wow apps finally will have some background freedom i.e messengers or GPS apps sweet go Apple!

Submitted by NewGuy on March 17, 2009 - 12:34pm.
watching a live blog and this is the word on background processing

" How does it work? Notifications pass through an Apple server and are then passed to a phone. You can pass badges (letting users know if things are waiting for them, like IMs), audio alerts, or text-message alerts. "The reason we're doing this is because it scales." Forstall also says this is optimized for mobile networks, which was probably a concern on the part of Apple's carrier partners when they discussed true background processing."