This day, Apple has begun emailing iPhone app developers to neglect them understand they are now getting iOS 4-compatible apps in the App Store. Just as it does each time before a new OS releases (such as earlier this year with the iPad OS, which was iPhone OS 3.2 — yes, it is a little disconcerting), Apple wants to make sure it has apps to exhibit off when the new OS hits on June 21 (three days before the iPhone 4 release).
And this release is essential because it conveys the ability for third-party applications to trip in the background for the first time. Beforehand this day, Pocket-lint transcribed that “massive delays” were expected for multitasking apps. But there were two major troubles with this report. First, it appeared to propose that the iPhone 4 was the key to multitasking. In fact, it is iOS 4 that conveys the ability to multitask, and it conveys it to the iPhone 3GS and newest generation iPod touch as well. More primarily, they noted that
“in our initial testing, only Apple apps, like the Clock, Mail and Safari, can multitask. That’s it!”
Um, that’s for the reason that there are no third-party apps available yet that have this built in. That’s exactly why Apple is sending out emails that they are going to start accepting them presently.
Here is my fondness line from the Pocket-lint story,
“When we spoke to a number of developers, that aren’t keen to be named in this article for fear of backlash from Apple, they all confirmed to Pocket-lint that, for any app to take advantage of the new multitasking features, it will have to be updated.”
Uh, yes. That is precisely what Apple has been telling all along. I am not sure what response a developer would face for indicating that out.
FUD aside, developers could begin submitting these iOS 4-compatible apps . And from what I have know from developers, it is not that hard to do. In fact, a number of them obtained apps up and running in time to move on the demo units Apple made available after the WWDC keynote address on Monday. For example, heres Pandora running in the background. Foursquare was moving as well, as were other apps.
But it is not all good news for developers. When Apple creates a call for these new, specific applications, they usually propel other ones aside to make sure the can approve these special ones in time for a release. We saw this with the iPad release. Based on what we are apprehending from some developers now, it arises that regular (non-iOS 4) apps are seeing approval wait times that are longer than normal already.
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