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   Message 119,681 of 120,746   
   Alan to Maria Sophia   
   Re: What are technical restrictions prev   
   02 Jan 26 17:26:28   
   
   XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-02 17:00, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   > Happy New Year!   
   >   
   > What are technical restrictions preventing useful apps on iOS?   
   >   
   > Offhand, I know of these... but what other useful categories of   
   > functionality are not only not on iOS, but on every other OS?   
   >   
   > 1.  Real background daemons   
   >      Reason: iOS does not allow long-running background processes.   
   >      Examples: Tasker (Android), cron (Linux), launchd services (macOS)   
      
   You're wrong.   
      
      
      
   But what else is new.   
      
   Since you were wrong right off the top, why would I bother with anything   
   else?   
      
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