Comments on: Skype iPhone Multitasking Not Ready for Prime Time.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:00:23 +0000

Hi Peter, I’d be happy to try it out. There remain many good reasons for having a second line on a mobile. They won’t go away in a hurry. Thanks for commenting. Stuart

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By: Peter Sisson

Peter Sisson — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:23:43 +0000

Hi Stuart,

Hope you are well. I just wanted to point out the Line2 works great on iOS4 and supports backgrounding without being intrusive or running down your battery. Not sure what’s going on with TruPhone and Skype. Skype sounds like they didn’t really think through the usability, while in the case of TruPhone it sounds like they actually couldn’t get it to work right. In their defense iOS4 has emerged to be a very tricky beast, in part because its still new and Apple has not worked out all the bugs. It took a lot of testing but we did get Line2 to work well on iOS4, and its ability to run in the background is a game changer in terms of usability.

By: Todd Carothers

Todd Carothers — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:11:42 +0000

Good article… I did a post today on Skype issues today… also have an older post on Facetime. Apple did a nice job and at the same time found a great way to collect (SIP) users in their own controlled network.

I had similar issues with Skype and multitasking. Interesting on the battery drain… TCP-based services should not drain the battery (given the VoIP API Apple provides).

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:48:49 +0000

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