Comments on: Multitask-Masters: No AIM Loophole http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/ For people who dare to Phone Different. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:34:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: AnteL0pe http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/comment-page-1/#comment-5746 AnteL0pe Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:09:34 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/#comment-5746 <p>Does that even still count as an <strong>instant</strong> messaging client?</p> Does that even still count as an instant messaging client?

]]> By: Dieter Bohn http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/comment-page-1/#comment-5745 Dieter Bohn Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:58:41 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/#comment-5745 <p>AIM wouldn't need to run in the background if there were, like there are on Palm and WinMo, APIs for dealing with incoming sms messages. On those devices, an incoming text with specific bits in it would be able to bring up the chat client and have it re-start the conversation.</p> <p>Sadly, no such API exists for the iPhone, so far as I know.</p> AIM wouldn’t need to run in the background if there were, like there are on Palm and WinMo, APIs for dealing with incoming sms messages. On those devices, an incoming text with specific bits in it would be able to bring up the chat client and have it re-start the conversation.

Sadly, no such API exists for the iPhone, so far as I know.

]]> By: schleifnet http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/comment-page-1/#comment-5744 schleifnet Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:57:47 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/#comment-5744 <p>one more thing, using the aim principle above, you could have an app semi multitask via a web connection. then your apps are always online and almost Adobe AIR or Google Gears like...</p> one more thing, using the aim principle above, you could have an app semi multitask via a web connection. then your apps are always online and almost Adobe AIR or Google Gears like…

]]> By: schleifnet http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/comment-page-1/#comment-5743 schleifnet Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:56:03 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/#comment-5743 <p>AIM on Sprint in the pre-vision days was a WAP based website that keptyou logged in until you selected logout, even if you left the webbrowser. This was not a multitasking thing... in other words an AIM app on the iphone would not need to be a multitasker. You would log in and stay logged in when leaving the app via a tracker held at aol maybe with some sort of away or paused message or maybe not away with you selecting an option to get an sms or something when you get im'ed</p> <p>in other words AIM doesn't need to be running in the background</p> AIM on Sprint in the pre-vision days was a WAP based website that keptyou logged in until you selected logout, even if you left the webbrowser. This was not a multitasking thing… in other words an AIM app on the iphone would not need to be a multitasker. You would log in and stay logged in when leaving the app via a tracker held at aol maybe with some sort of away or paused message or maybe not away with you selecting an option to get an sms or something when you get im’ed

in other words AIM doesn’t need to be running in the background

]]> By: Rene Ritchie http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/comment-page-1/#comment-5742 Rene Ritchie Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:29:14 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/#comment-5742 <p>One that's designed to keep AT&T's SMS charge-tards happy?</p> <p>I agree with Hockenberry in that I see this as being an early limitation that Apple will probably relax or create a condition for in the future. They're serious about gaining market share, and have been surprisingly (for them!) open to adjusting course with things iPhone.</p> One that’s designed to keep AT&T’s SMS charge-tards happy?

I agree with Hockenberry in that I see this as being an early limitation that Apple will probably relax or create a condition for in the future. They’re serious about gaining market share, and have been surprisingly (for them!) open to adjusting course with things iPhone.

]]> By: AnteL0pe http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/comment-page-1/#comment-5741 AnteL0pe Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:03:28 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/#comment-5741 <p>That would have to be the lamest implementation of an IM client ever.</p> That would have to be the lamest implementation of an IM client ever.

]]> By: surur http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/comment-page-1/#comment-5740 surur Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:59:15 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/19/multitask-masters-no-aim-loophole/#comment-5740 <p>Its hilarious. Only Apple could have felt this is a good solution. What's next - all your phone calls going to voice mail until you switch on your phone? (Visual voice mail of course, so this would be a cool feature, and Apple could tout a year's standby time)</p> <p>Surur</p> Its hilarious. Only Apple could have felt this is a good solution. What’s next – all your phone calls going to voice mail until you switch on your phone? (Visual voice mail of course, so this would be a cool feature, and Apple could tout a year’s standby time)

Surur

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