Video: This is what Apple should have put inside iOS 6

Earlier this week Apple showed off the next version of their mobile operating system, iOS 6. It has a ton of tiny features that will probably add up to an impressive update, but there aren’t any stand out features that you can point to and classify as “magical”. Personally, I’m disappointed that multitasking wasn’t addressed in the update. Anyone who owns an iPhone knows how sketchy the whole double tap thing is, that and the user interface to switch between apps is laughable at best. A designer by the name of Joost van der Ree has taken it upon himself to produce a concept video showing not only how Apple should do multitasking, but also how they should improve the notification screen and various other things within the OS. Take a look at it:

Now the multitasking UI should be familiar to you if you remember Nokia’s N9. That device was the first, last, and only phone to run MeeGo. Part of what made that thing special was how you could simply swipe to the right to unveil an infinitely long scrolling list of live previews of the last applications you used. Joost copies that concept, but in his interpretation you swipe up from the bottom of the device to pull up said multitasking UI. That’s incredibly similar to how Palm’s webOS worked. Just to make things clear: We have no problem with companies stealing ideas from each other if it results in better products being made.

So will Apple eventually improve app switching? Of course they will, the problem is we have no idea when. And now that iOS 6 is pretty much done, it looks like we’re going to have to wait at least another year. By that time who knows what Google will achieve with Android and what Microsoft has up their sleeve with Windows Phone.

What do you think, did Apple show off an “amazing” operating system earlier this week or were you disappointed because you were expecting more significant changes?

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

Anonymous

Multitasking is the reason I wont get an iphone, thankfully Android have partially addressed it but crazily all the defunct OS’s had the best multitasking, seems to show how unimportant it is for most people. (WebOS, Symbian, Maemo/Meego). :/
- db1
  
  Okay, so how do you personally utilize multitasking?
  - Anonymous
    
    Listening to an mp3 or video streaming via the browser at the same time as doing other things. Quickly flicking between different open apps, opening one, doing something else then coming back to it (without having the page/app reload and so losing your position). quick, fluid, proper multitasking, no double tapping of buttons required. Basically as close to desktop multitasking as possible..
    - db1
      
      I get this image in my head about crazy multitasker on meth, flicking the screen constantly and doing thousand things at the same time
      
      Actually IOS can do multitasking to some extent. For example: Listen to music while sending an email with attachment, and downloading a podcast, while browsing the web.
      
      I know people who got drained battery with Symbian and Meego all the time because they left programs open in background. This would be probably the case with iPhones with full multitasking enabled. I’ve already seen this with people who jailbreak…
      
      Task switching on iPad is little different and you can gesture your way to other apps.
      
      Then again I’m bad multitasker and prefer to concentrate on just one thing…
      - Anonymous
        
        Ha, maybe not meth, perhaps other stuff!;)
        
        I have an ipad, I just dislike its multitasking, this is its biggest downfall – music work in the background but a huge amount doesnt – the lack of actual multitasking for most apps is a big downer though.
        
        I have an N9, its battery is absolutely brilliant (genuinely), I almost always have a screen full of open apps. I cant remember Symbian though, as that was rather back in the day! Battery usage is always quoted as the reason for lack of multitasking but I dont buy it from personal experience.
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