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Something iPhoney

Something I’ve noticed about Apple’s ‘Remote’ application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, is a setting which lets you choose to keep the remote connected to your computer, so it doesn’t need to reconnect again when you wake the device or reopen the application. And yet, it seems to be a rather standard App Store app. It sure would be nice if some cunning coder found out a way to sign applications THAT way… If apps ran unsandboxed, and could simply be installed through iTunes, that would sure be a nifty system indeed.

Update: Looks like I was totally wrong on this one. The ‘Stay Connected’ setting only keeps it connected while asleep, not while using other applications. It always disconnects when you press the home button. Darn.

Comments

  1. It’s really tricky to write an app that is doing stuff all the time and not have your iPhone/iPod die all the time. When I ran my iPod touch jailbroken, just letting the SSH daemon keep running would run down the battery once a day, and it wasn’t even doing anything, ya know?

    I definitely understand Apple’s motivation in limiting the stuff apps can do to make sure your iPhone runs as smoothly as possible. Even with all their restrictions, most of the third-party apps are kind of frustratingly crashy and battery-hungry.

    qwzybug July 14th, 2008 at 7:51 am

  2. That is certainly very different to my jailbroken experience. I had the SSH daemon running too, and my iPod would stay fully charged when I slept it, and had battery life very similar to when unjailbroken. And again, running apps in the background never seemed to cause any crashes for me, they would simply be closed if springboard decided it needed the ram they were using. I would take my iPod Touch for 4 day long trips to the country and it’s battery lasted fine. :)

    Maybe there was something screwy going on in yours. Some rogue cpu cycle eating process. Or maybe you had it set to check email periodically, as that’s a real battery killer.

    Blueberry July 14th, 2008 at 9:20 am

  3. Yeah, I never figured out exactly what it was. I probably should have been more assiduous with my Installer.app usage, but the SSHD was the only thing I could think of that should have been running. (And I do have it check email every half hour.)

    Of course, nothing eats my battery like Enigmo. Oh man I love that game.

    qwzybug July 15th, 2008 at 4:29 am

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