Before using it, I too was skeptical about the task switcher, but it works really well. It is fast and works about as well (and as quickly in practice) as alt-

Before using it, I too was skeptical about the task switcher, but it works really well. It is fast and works about as well (and as quickly in practice) as alt-tab on a Mac or PC. The author makes a good point about the difference in icon placements between the folder icon and the folder itself. For file management, iPhone OS 3.2+ is already half way there. It syncs specific files from one's computer to specific apps. What we need is to extend this and have a system-wide documents database that is akin to the contacts, calendars, and music database APIs. Version control support in this API would be cool as well.