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Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 announcement this morning delivered plenty of features we expected, and some we didn't. In fact, it adds 100 new features in total, and they'll all be in users' pockets this summer. Developers get 1500(!) new APIs that provide access to parts of the phone they've never been able to use before, and a developer preview will be available today.
So, what's being added? Steve Jobs walked through 7 "Tentpole" features, and we'll walk you through them, too.
Multitasking:
Jobs explained that multitasking took so long because Apple had to do it in a way that wouldn't crush the iPhone's performance and battery life. He says they've accomplished that goal in iPhone 4.0, and foreground apps shouldn't be significantly slower when background apps are running.
Jobs brought out the developers of the Pandora music app, which used the new multitasking APIs to play music in the background (just like the iPod app does now). The developers of Skype also turned up to show how you can now leave Skype running in the background to accept incoming calls. Impressive. Multitasking also includes "local notifications," which are like Push, but don't need to use Apple's servers.
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