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Originally Posted by nekokami
But even if TouchTerm logs you back in, you aren't still in the same directory and your processes may be killed (unless you backgrounded them). This is one of the cases where true traditional multitasking will probably be required. The question is whether Apple will consider the use case common enough for them to decide to allow an appropriate app to use the existing multitasking capabilities.
The "any ebook app" is certainly attractive. Hopefully it will work out that way.  |
I'm not going to assume anything about that, but I don't believe that the alarmist stuff going around is warranted just yet. Kindle and eReader apps are already on the platform, pulling them would be a PR disaster. Apple doesn't like those very much.
The trick with TouchTerm is to have it run screen as soon as it logs in. screen makes all your sessions on the other end persistent even when the connection is lost and lets you re-attach. It's one of those things people like me who've been doing this stuff for 15+ years and who remember 2400bps modems and frequent connection loss still use reflexively, but the GUI generation may never even notice.
Anyway, at that point the bottleneck is time taken to launch TouchTerm and restart the session.