Brandon Ballentine

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Apple’s “education announcement”

Apple invites media for ‘education announcement’ in New York, next Thursday, Jan. 19

While an iBook/textbook announcement probably makes the most sense, how great would it be if Apple released a learning management system? They have some of the key components already in place with iTunes-U, iBooks, and their suite of media creation tools. As I spent the day battling D2L errors (my school’s LMS), I kept thinking, “what if there was a system that just worked … “

Let me be as clear as I can be: the iOS multitasking bar does not contain “a list of all running apps”. It contains “a list of recently used apps”. The user never has to manage background tasks on iOS.

One thing to note, however, is that removing apps from the multitasking bar is a very good way to close an app experiencing problems. I have to do this with the Netflix app all the time. The app frequently freezes on a particular view. Unless I remove the app from the multitasking bar, the next time I access the app, it will attempt to return to that same view.