Thread: iPhone 4
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gerbick
2010-06-23 , 21:06
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Originally Posted by thearcane View Post
But seeing that every app shoves itself into the memory, without so much as indicating it to the user, I figure there must be some limit to how many apps "stay open" (well, paused in Fast Switching mode or something). In theory, eventually things should start closing on you.
I'm up to 28 apps at the moment, but since not all of the apps are true state friendly with iOS 4, I can't test that until they all are.

But at least 8 or so of them are multi-task friendly: Evernote, Twitter, Bing, Mail, Safari, Phone, Pandora, Messages, Clock, Calendar, Maps, Photos, Settings... and I'm not noticing any slow down, nor anything being removed.

I'll see how many more I can shove in there, but I fear that since most are not iOS 4 optimized, I might be wasting our time until I get more apps that are optimized to hold a state. Those that are not, they will not fast switch, they basically restart (lord, I like but absolutely dislike this so-called multi-tasking model, it soooo sucks) and I'm not sure if it's impacting memory or not.

To me, and I'm being wholly unscientific here, just seems to follow the more serial-tasking part of the OS.

I'll update in a bit.