July 5th
One downside of multitasking on the iPhone
You have to force-quit apps that continue to run when they shouldn’t.
I used a background-enabled GPS app during my drive home from NYC to Baltimore this weekend. After I got home, and the app had announced that I had “arrived at my destination,” it continued to try to recalculate the route as I walked around my house. My only option was to double-click the home button and force-quit the app.
That’s fine for me, but would grandma be able to figure that little trick out? Probably not.
More likely, the iPhone would utter “recalculating” in her pocketbook until the battery died and she would go back to using a calling card.
