iPhone OS 4 Beta 2 Offers A Nice Multitasking Animation

on 04/21/2010 01:15 PDT

Apple has released the iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2 to developers yesterday, and while it does offer API improvements, increased performance and bug fixes, one of the more notable changes will be the faster and smoother animation when switching between apps using multitasking. The transition itself is smooth and pretty, which should be quite pleasant for users to see. Check out a video of the new multitasking animation after the jump, and don’t forget our coverage on Apple’s upcoming iPhone OS 4.0.

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iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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