Sick of third party programs not being able to offer background audio like iTunes does on your iPhone? Guess what? Apple just changed that.
As one of seven new APIs being offered to developers, now anyone can make their app run audio in the background. The big winner here is Pandora, who takes the stage and shows how their music streaming app can now work in the background after only a day of work: the existing iPod controls on the lock screen continue to function and everything! Now let’s see Spotify!
Brilliant solution by Apple here: they’ve enabled multitasking by offering a very limited but comprehensive checklist of services that can run in the background.
Next up: VOIP!
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
