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If you ever thought that Apple’s implementation of ‘multitasking’ sucked, you weren’t alone. Now you can do something about it, because frankly, this awesome jailbreak tweak called Auxo is precisely how Apple should do it. In fact, Apple, just buy this and integrate it, now.
Brought from concept to reality, the tweak should be available on Cydia any minute now, allowing jailbreakers to finally do what Apple should have done. It lets you see previews of running apps, close more than just one app at a time, and also throws a whole load of quick-access settings down in the bar. It looks awesome, is miles smarter than what Apple gives you, and makes me want to Jailbreak again. Now, where’s that iOS 6 untethered jailbreak? [iDownloadblog]
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Sam? Sam? Is that really you Sam? I’m all alone Sam!
Friday afternoon’s always quiet
The last one before Xmas, coupled with it being the Apocalypse has made it quintrupley so!
Everyone still hiding in their panic rooms/ underground / caves / bunkers, until tomorrow I guess.
I’m still here… holding on…
Are you going to come and spend some time with us in the Unofficial Gizmodo UK Google+ community next year Sam? It’s picking up momentum!
Maybe, it depends if you’re all good boys. Like Santa, I have a naughty and a nice list.
Does look really good. Sparkly and smooth looking with some impressive features.
Now Apple, you’ve been shown how to do it, you could even steal the code to do it. So get on with it!
*cough* webOS *cough*
Or Android… which arguably stole the idea from WebOS…
Just goes to show how far Apple are falling behind the crowd when not one but two competing OS’s get there first.
This would work so well with the extra screen real estate on the iPhone 5…. Apple, are you listening?
This is very impressive indeed. Would you think that this would render SBSettings obsolete?
Any idea what effect this (as well as jailbreaking as a whole) has on the iPhone’s battery life?
Slow news day, I guess.
*cough* BlackBerry 10 *cough*
“finally do what Apple should have done. It lets you see previews of running apps, close more than just one app at a time”
Apple do allow you to close more than just one app at a time.
Auxo really does highlight the benefit of jail breaking and shows what customisations are possible on this so called locked down OS.
idownloadblog rocks so if your a jailbreaker it’s well worth checking out..
Hey Taf, nice to see you here, someone said you left.
Looks like a really cool app. It seems to borrow a lot from Android’s multi-tasking view, which is awesome, but adds other system controls in there too, which is a very good UI idea. Shame you have to jailbreak your iPhone to get this though.
Given how Apple are primarily focused on user experience over anything else, it strikes me as odd at how bad the current multi-tasking interface is.
In the future I can see all these multi-tasking features given a more primary position on the home screen, maybe completely replacing the home screen as we know it.
I think users are primarily interested in what they are doing on their phone now and what apps are currently active, and direct access to them. I don’t think they want to be presented with a sea of icons representing what they might want to do next in the first instance; these can be offset easily and logically into a one-tap “all apps” menu, like in Android.
iOS isn’t going to change fundamentally any time soon. Because in order to do so, Apple has to admit it’s bland, stuck in 2008 and falling even further behind the competition.
And before anyone says it, I am an iOS user. My iTouch 4 happens to be my second most favourite technological device I’ve ever owned – ignoring the fact it has decided to steal a quarter of the capacity for “Other” that iTunes will neither identify nor let me delete.