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		ezy on April 5, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple to preview iPhone OS 4 this Thursday at Appl... Well, given that the iPad runs the iPhone OS, I think you can generalize this to one case. Any app that needs to maintain a persistant network connection. That covers IM, streaming...and remote login (ssh, vnc, rdp, etc...)

ryanpetrich on April 5, 2010 [–]

I'm not convinced that remote login requires this. RDP and VNC can keep a session available when disconnected, and screen is available over SSH.

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