>nor did it get Multi-tasking first. Actually, multi-tasking of some sort always was an OS feature (not just enabled by default). The first program I wrote on

>nor did it get Multi-tasking first. Actually, multi-tasking of some sort always was an OS feature (not just enabled by default). The first program I wrote on my iPhone was a python server uptime notifier which ran in the background. Multitasking as we know it now was enabled for anyone who wished to jailbreak before android was released at all, as announced on tech crunch. That's not the same as a baked in feature, then again, 90% of the stuff HN people talk about android doing are people who run rooted android for one reason or another.