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Yes, but to be honest, there are legitimate reasons why they chose not to allow multitasking. You can say it's being a "fanboy" if you want, but I personally d
by illumin8 17y ago
Yes, but to be honest, there are legitimate reasons why they chose not to allow multitasking. You can say it's being a "fanboy" if you want, but I personally don't want to take the tech support call from my grandma where I have to walk her through how to open up a task manager and kill a process that is creating a memory leak. Or ask her to reboot her phone just to fix a problem. Or wonder why she's only getting 3 hours of standby time on a full charge of a battery.
These are common issues with past mobile smartphone platforms like WinMo.
Apple is smart enough to know that giving people fewer choices is sometimes a better idea than giving them the power to fuck it up royally. When Apple does implement multitasking, you can bet it will probably be done right.
Does that make me a fanboy? Maybe, but you're being dishonest if you think the average user knows or even cares about how much memory is available in their smartphone.
- elblanco 17y ago> Yes, but to be honest, there are legitimate reasons why they chose not to allow multitasking And those reasons will magically disappear if they offer multitasking some day? Or will the fanboy crowds switch to "well Apple didn't want to do it until they could build a better version of multitasking, and now they have for <insert esoteric implementation reason>."
- glhaynes 17y agoIf they offer multitasking, it will be in a well-thought-out, actually-useful way that doesn't cause you to have to walk grandma through Task Manager or listen to her complain about how her battery life is a quarter what it was before the update.
- elblanco 17y agoYour satire is refreshing. Especially the part where I said "Or will the fanboy crowds switch to "well Apple didn't want to do it until they could build a better version of multitasking, and now they have for <insert esoteric implementation reason>."" And you responded with pretty much exactly what I said, pretending to be a rabid fanboy. Hilarious!!! HN doesn't usually see much humor at all, it's nice to see some, particularly with such a sophisticated wit! Kudos!
- theBobMcCormick 17y agoIn other words, exactly the way Android already does it? :-)
- illumin8 17y agoIt depends on whether Apple has a good implementation of multitasking or not. I guess we'll find out later this week during their iPhone OS 4.0 presentation. I'm not a fanboy, just a fan of good software implementation, and Apple has had a pretty good track record so far.
- theBobMcCormick 17y agoTask managers may have been needed for WinMo (I don't know, I've never had a WinMo phone), but they are absolutely not needed in Android.