Comments on: iPhone’s Achilles’ heel: lack of background processing http://www.sneaker.org/2009/01/iphones-achilles-heel/ Manu Kumar | California | U.S.A Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:26:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ish Harshawat http://www.sneaker.org/2009/01/iphones-achilles-heel/comment-page-1/#comment-17104 Ish Harshawat Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:29:44 +0000 http://www.sneaker.org/?p=474#comment-17104 While I too am a bit disappointed by the lack of major iPhone OS updates including some form of background processing -- I think Apple has a huge lead based on its uniform UI paradigm and lead in pure number of apps. I have used Nexus One. I am very unimpressed. While its great for geeks like you and me all the apps run differently from each other and the learning curve is just to steep.The mobile developer in me is scared by Android because of the sheer device fragmentation issues and lack of a uniform addressable market. I think Apple will introduce backgrounding later. How would I do it? App registers to wake up at a periodic intervals. A central timer dispatches the appropriate notification. Simple observer pattern that should deal with the battery life issues. But i'm not worried for Apple they have lots of lead time on their competitors. While I too am a bit disappointed by the lack of major iPhone OS updates including some form of background processing — I think Apple has a huge lead based on its uniform UI paradigm and lead in pure number of apps. I have used Nexus One. I am very unimpressed. While its great for geeks like you and me all the apps run differently from each other and the learning curve is just to steep.The mobile developer in me is scared by Android because of the sheer device fragmentation issues and lack of a uniform addressable market. I think Apple will introduce backgrounding later. How would I do it? App registers to wake up at a periodic intervals. A central timer dispatches the appropriate notification. Simple observer pattern that should deal with the battery life issues.

But i’m not worried for Apple they have lots of lead time on their competitors.

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