iOS4 might be one of the most waited Operating System since Mr Steve Jobs announced it several months ago. It has tons of new features, but for me as end user, there are two main and important features that I have waited so long: Folders and Multitasking. These two features are already exists for for quite long for iPhone if you are willing to 'jailbreak' your iPhone. Since I bought my iPhone 3GS, I have waited patiently for these features released by Apple itself.
Yesterday was the first day of this iOS4 available for download while the pre-requisite iTunes 9.2 has been available days before. I might be among those users rush into the queue to download it. The first try, it failed, but the second time, amazingly it was downloaded very fast, less than 10 minutes... and, tada... in less the 1 hour, my iPhone upgraded to iOS4... :) soooo happy and couldn't wait to try it.
Of course, the first thing that I did was to reorganize my 11 pages Apps into folders and just keep the most used Apps kept out of folder. In the end, it occupies only 5 pages. This Folders feature works seamlessly. Creating folder is very easy, just drag one Apps into another Apps, both will the kept into a new folder. One folder can consists of 12 Apps (4 columns x 3 rows).
Then, time for testing the Multitasking feature... In my expectation, all Apps put into the background will keep running, or at least suspend in its latest status, so when I return back to it, I can continue using it... BUT, yes a big BUT, I am quite disappointed with iOS4 Multitasking because it doesn't match my high expectation... because when I got back to the suspended Apps, the Apps was running from the beginning again... :(
There might be 2 reasons: first, the Apps are not iOS4-compatible yet (I expect quite number of Apps updates in the next few weeks), and/or second, Apple purposely limit this Multitasking for only some kind of applications to preserve the power and performance of the iPhone (I know that Apple very concern about this). So, for me, the current Multitasking is more for the purpose of fast-switching between Apps which has been loaded in memory... well, quite wasted... worse, it even gives user additional things to do... to stop the Apps which all loaded into memory once it is run, when user needs to release some memory... alas! Probably, Apple should consider only when user double-click (or long button press??) on home button the Apps suspended and keeps the one-click to close the Apps.
I then compare this Multitasking with my friend's iPhone that 'jailbreak'ed on the same Apps... hmm, honestly... 'jailbreak' done a much better job on this Multitasking feature... eventhough the Apps itself was suspended, but when you get back to that Apps, you can continue from where you left it. Isn't it the purpose of Multitasking??? Arrrggghhhh...
Well, should I 'jailbreak' my iPhone when its stable version available for iOS4??? Hmm... I think I will wait for several weeks until most of the Apps updated with their iOS4-compatible version.
Last words, as usual, Apple did good job on the interface... still smooth and very responsive as usual, beautiful, and cool... :)
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