How will instant messaging work with 4.0 multitasking?

[BeachChair]

It's unclear to me if 4.0 can run IM in the background.

 

[Patrick J]

Yes. Once the app devs make it work with the system calls that apple provide for such purposes.

Watch the keynote for a preview on how SKYPE will work.

 

[sfwalter]

No they will still need to use push notification. However at least developers will be give the opportunity to save the state of their app before it get unloaded from memory.

 

[sharp65]

Yes. Once the app devs make it work with the system calls that apple provide for such purposes.

Watch the keynote for a preview on how SKYPE will work.

That's not how it will work, IM applications will still use push notifications. VOIP is something completely different.

 

[iWoz]

yep, i remember hereing social networking clients will still be using push, I guess thats the case with IM?

Personally I feel the likes of IM should be able to run via multitasking on not just push notifications

 

[BeachChair]

Hmm I'm not too fond of the Push sollution in my iPhone.

Maybe iChat will come to the iPhone os with some kind of backgrounding but iChat doesn't support Msn