Why Doesn't Apple Do Stuff Like This?

[mikecap]

Only Apple can implement this feature, because it would involve a background process running on the iPhone to continuously check the time and then launch the processes; but I want a "macros" feature where the device would "replay" a series of touches I make on it at scheduled intervals

Comments

[arachne8x]

is there really no such app? I think they make apps like that even for the centro.

[mikecap]

My suspicion is, assuming they thought of it, is that they didn't want to tax the battery any more than they had to, and maybe their implementation of it would have shave some time off. But at this point, they should really add it in, and hopefully they would do so in the manner I describe so that it's a generic and flexible macro making process that would work for any third party app.