Re: Kernel Extensions for iPhone
Re: Kernel Extensions for iPhone
- Subject: Re: Kernel Extensions for iPhone
- From: Andre-John Mas <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:25:42 -0400
On 10-Mar-08, at 20:49 , Martin Redington wrote:
Funnily enough, that was one of my first app ideas too - kind of
obvious really.
Hopefully Apple will enable this, but it doesn't look as though
there's any way to do this commercially (although you might be able do
it yourself, on a jailbroken phone).
I wonder whether a compromise could be made here, in that we could ask
Apple to create a lightweight kernel extension, that would allow the
rest of the work to be done in user-space.
I would recommend filing an enhancement request in the bug tracker and
see if this leads to something suitable in the future.
"No background apps" kills off whole classes of apps as well. Although
that's kind of frustrating, at least the playing field seems to level
so far ...
From what I am aware Windows CE doesn't officially support
backgrounds apps
either. A friend of mine installed a hack that allowed him to run apps
in
the background and the net result was instability and shorter battery
life.
Remember this is an embedded device designed to run on battery for days,
rather than hours. Getting the balance right it important. Unfortunately
there are many developers who think as the iPhone as just as another PC
and don't realise the inherent limitations at this points. Its not to
say
that things will change, as the hardware evolves.
Andre
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