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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18.08.2015 08:13, Roman Shchekin wrote:
> BTW, N9 (with OS called "MeeGo" but in real it was tuned MaeMo) has true
> multitasking, swype keyboard, services support, no AppArmor (and related
> pain), 

One word: aegis

I for one prefer AppArmor. AppArmor pretects the user, while aegis was
mostly protecting the device from the user. You can easily run apps
without AppArmor if you want, while disabling aegis was not that easy.

Apart from that, I agree the N9 was amazing.

> little start-up time of applications and etc. It wasn't PR-ed
> well, that's only reason of failure. Can we use some ideas from N9?
> 
> 2015-08-18 2:22 GMT+04:00 Николай Шатохин <n.shatokhin@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:n.shatokhin@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     I used Nokia N9 because it has multitasking.
> 
>     2015-08-17 23:39 GMT+03:00 Krzysztof Tataradziński
>     <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>         So why Ubuntu making the same mistakes? ;)
> 
>         2015-08-17 8:28 GMT+02:00 Roman Shchekin <mrqtros@xxxxxxxxx
>         <mailto:mrqtros@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>             Services are must-have feature in mobile OS. Just remember
>             Windows Phone 7 - only music player can work in background,
>             that was terrible for users and even
>             more terrible for programmers!
> 
>             2015-08-17 3:48 GMT+03:00 James Henstridge
>             <james.henstridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>             <mailto:james.henstridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>                 On 17 August 2015 at 03:15, Krzysztof Tataradziński
>                 <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>                 >
>                 > 2015-08-15 18:58 GMT+02:00 Николай Шатохин <n.shatokhin@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:n.shatokhin@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>                 >>
>                 >>
>                 >> When can I wait true multitasking?
>                 >>
>                 >> How was alarm realised? I need alarm in my app.
>                 >>
>                 >> суббота, 15 августа 2015 г. пользователь Roman Zonov написал:
>                 >>
>                 >> > Hello. Alarm  - is more exception, than a rule, there is no opportunity
>                 >> > at the moment to make an app working in background.
>                 >
>                 >
>                 > I'm also little worried why only Clock alarm can work and ring even when we
>                 > swipe down and close app. Why other apps can't do that? Is it security issue
>                 > or something else? I think that blocks lot of cool features (and new apps
>                 > that could be developed).
> 
>                 The clock application closes just like any other
>                 application when you
>                 swipe it away.  The reason your alarms still function is
>                 because the
>                 application is essentially just acting as a front-end to
>                 configure the
>                 alarms: they are actually managed by a shell component
>                 (indicator-datetime, IIRC).
> 
>                 It'd be nice to have some kind of general purpose background
>                 processing mode for applications, but it isn't available
>                 at this time.
> 
>                 James.
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