No background applications for the iPhone
One of the biggest hopes for a lot of applications (and games) designers for the new iPhone 3.0 update is the possibility to allow software to run in the background.
Stus been live blogging Apples unveiling of the iPhone 3.0 update, which has revealed that the manufacturer has already experimented with the possibility of background running applications - with little success.
It seems the already struggling battery isnt up to the task, though something of a middle-ground solution has presented itself. The 3.0 update is offering more use of the push facility, and developers are apparently to be allowed access to the function.
This will allow applications to notify the user about updates, events and other operations requiring their attention, which is essentially all theyd want anyway.
Presumably this will also leave battery life pretty much unaffected, so what initially sounded like bad news might be the open invitation developers have been looking for in iPhone usability.