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I'm not trying to be an Apple fanboy here, but this is sort of an interesting example of what happens when you give your users more information about the system
by seldo 16y ago
I'm not trying to be an Apple fanboy here, but this is sort of an interesting example of what happens when you give your users more information about the system than they need. People see these stats and make incorrect assumptions about what they mean. iPhone on the other hand doesn't give you this information, so people ignore it, which works out fine.
- Ysx 16y agoAndroid doesn't show this as standard. You need a third-party app to show memory usage or kill processes.
- varikin 16y agoYou can kill processes with standard Android, but it is buried under the system settings under applications or something like that. I don't know about memory usage though.
- pilif 16y agointerestingly enough, with the advent of OS4 bugs in various 3rd party applications become much more visible. Skype for example sucks 20% of my 3GS (1 year old) battery per hour if it's running in the background. Even if it might look really cool, the task manager functionality of the iphone is really badly discoverable (I've had coworkers ask me how to fix their battery drain, not knowing how to kill tasks) and clunky to use if you need to regularly quit application (which you do with skype). I guess it's my fault though - I wanted multitasking for Skype and now that I have it, I don't want it any more.