ORIGINAL: Crimguy
You're about 4 hours too late for that comment. Apple just announced multitasking for both the iphone and the ipad today. Ipod this summer. iPad this fall.
It won't be real multitasking though. In the future, Once you'll open app "B", app "A" will freeze and be moved to the background (means it will be paused), and if you then switch back from "B" to "A", then B will be paused.
Currently, listening to some tunes and writing an SMS on an I-phone will work (because the music-player is a part of the OS), but if you want activate a 3rd party app AND then an Apple utility, the 3rd party app will be closed.
Also, listening to music and using facebook or other 3rd-party apps won't work, unlike on OS's with real multitasking - like Android.
Multitasking is a core element of the Android OS.
Apple used to dismiss multitasking in the past, as they claimed it would be an unnecessary burden for the battery.
Well, Google showed that you can do it, so Apple tries to counter Google's attack with their half-assed version of multitasking, now.
Apple = Overpriced, restrictive, missing functions or functionality, limited RAM, imho.
Their only advantage: The design is top-notch.
ORIGINAL: Crimguy
I had no idea this forum was populated by a band of luddites.
Luddite? Nah. It's just like Apple doesn't seem to catch up with the technical possibilities/progress, once they create a forerunner. It's been like that with the I-Cube, the I-Mac, and the I-Phone just follows that path. The competition uses to pass Apple after a while, sometimes picking up one or another idea or enhancing ideas, but always adding many more features, sometimes the competition passes and breaks new ground.
The I-cube, for example, was really neat: small, no fans inside (passive cooling), integrated CD-ROM drive, but you couldn't upgrade it. It had one or 2 memory banks, that was it. It was 10-20% more expensive than the other G4 machines, and you could only put in bigger HDs (>128 GB) if you installed OS X with special drivers. The cube let Apple stocks drop, and it took an iPod to solve this crisis. After Apple released the I-Cube, other companies came up with those "barebone" PCs, the awesome looking MacBook Air (reportedly overheating at 66° Celsius [150° F] already) was passed by even smaller eeePCs with Intel's Atom CPU.
They keep doing stuff like that.
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