{"id":499092,"date":"2010-03-31T22:27:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T02:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"15492 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-03-31T22:27:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T02:27:42","slug":"webos-1-4-1-vs-1-4-1-1-sdk-update-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499092","title":{"rendered":"webOS 1.4.1 vs 1.4.1.1, SDK, &amp; update delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rteleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"123\" align=\"right\" class=\"lightbox2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/admin.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Dieter%20Bohn\/2010\/03\/sdk_download_lg_0.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">Palm has released the <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.palm.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1588&amp;Itemid=55\">SDK for webOS 1.4.1<\/a> and it contains some bad news:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><em>Due to new carrier launches and varying carrier timetables, multiple 1.4.X releases will be active concurrently on consumer devices<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"rteleft\" style=\"text-align: left; \">That&#8217;s to be expected in this modern age, but shed a tear for those halcyon days of every single webOS device on every single carrier running the same OS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">Reading between the lines, you can pretty much expect that Verizon, Bell, and Telcel customers don&#8217;t have a clear ETA for getting the bugfixes in webOS 1.4.1.1. Our anonymous source confirms that &quot;Verizon is on a slower 1.4.X release schedule,&quot; suggesting that we are definitely looking at &quot;several more weeks&quot; of 1.4.0.<em><br \/> <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">For you developers, here&#8217;s the straight story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/webos-141-starts-trickling-out-holland-time\">webOS 1.4.1<\/a> (which O2 received) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/webos-1411-hits-sprint\">webOS 1.4.1.1 <\/a>(which landed on Sprint). From the SDK:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><em>As of webOS 1.4.1.1, apps will have 60 seconds to perform background operations in &quot;headless&quot; mode (with no stages open). In webOS 1.4.1, the limit remains 15 seconds, as it was in 1.4.0.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">In plain English, that essentially means that the issue some developers have faced with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/how-should-background-apps-function\">apps multitasking in the background<\/a> is all set up with the new behavior on Sprint devices but not yet on other carriers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">There are plenty of other changes that developers will want to take a look at in the <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.palm.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1588&amp;Itemid=55\">SDK release notes<\/a>&nbsp;(hooray for improved garbage collection and JSON parsing!).&nbsp;Non-developers might be more interested in reading the plain&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/webos-141-release-notes\">release notes for webOS 1.4.1<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=WYjCwS38AWY:qx2FYPGLa5E:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=WYjCwS38AWY:qx2FYPGLa5E:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=WYjCwS38AWY:qx2FYPGLa5E:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=WYjCwS38AWY:qx2FYPGLa5E:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=WYjCwS38AWY:qx2FYPGLa5E:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/WYjCwS38AWY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palm has released the SDK for webOS 1.4.1 and it contains some bad news: Due to new carrier launches and varying carrier timetables, multiple 1.4.X releases will be active concurrently on consumer devices That&#8217;s to be expected in this modern age, but shed a tear for those halcyon days of every single webOS device on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}