HT202070: About Multitasking on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
Learn about About Multitasking on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
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Aug 22, 2012 11:13 AM in response to smackagrinby Kilgore-Trout,You missed the point. It isn't a fail. It is an intentional design. Any one of the app designers mentioned could have designed the app to behave as you suggest (third party music players do it all the time). They didn't.
You are alone. No one wants to simply "listen" to video. That's what audio podcasts are for. When rational users are watching a video, they prefer it stop when removed from the screen. Trying to satisfy a tiny minority (yes, I mean you), would be expensive, and pointless.
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Aug 22, 2012 11:22 AM in response to Kilgore-Troutby smackagrin,Actually I beg to differ. Minority or not, there should be something for everyone and people want possibilities, not limitations. Serving the majority still alienates 49% of your potential audience. And taking care of the minority is never pointless. It fact the minority represent your largest segment of "non-customers" and potential future clients. And adding additional features isnot hugely expensive. In fact there are relatively simple to develop and implement as the 90% of the platform has already been completed and further enhancements have a huge ROI.
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Aug 22, 2012 11:28 AM in response to smackagrinby Kilgore-Trout,No, there should not necessarily be "something for everyone", and in this case we are most certainly NOT talking about a 49% minority. 0.000000000000049 is more like it. And if you design mass market systems, you do not program for that population.
You really do not have a clue, do you? You've invented a requirement no one else wants.
Really want to follow through with it?
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
And yeah, hold your breath waiting for it to happen.
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Oct 23, 2012 8:12 AM in response to Kilgore-Troutby Paulistano,I am also part of the 0.0000000000000049. I listen to videos while doing a bunch of different things on my computer, but I would prefer doing it on my iPad.
Now is this apple blocking this multitasking or is it the app producers? Should I shout at Apple or at Netflix?
Thanks
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Jan 2, 2015 7:56 AM in response to smackagrinby Julieandtherain,I would love to keep Netflix and Hulu running in the background while I'm using my iPad. I do that all the time with my laptop and am actually really frustrated by the limitation. I don't know why peoole on this message board think that's so unreasonable.