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2012-05-07
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When I say dumbed down OS is due to removed interesting features usually found on previous OS (mobile or not), even when there were a lot less hardware resources. For example, EPOC 32 OS, from 13 years ago, is a lot better in stability and multitasking than almost all current mobile OS.
If the majority of people buy some type of a car, or support a soccer team, etc, I am not obliged to do the same.
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2012-05-07
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2012-05-07
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But that also kind of proves the point, that "enforcing" policy, the way multitasking has been implemented in Android, is better.
We know programmers are lazy, and there is a vast forest of information and things and standards and good (tm) practices to remember when coding to some sophisticated system like for smart phone.
We have had problems also in Maemo, where developers "forget" to react to the situation when application goes background. Those kind of programs have ended up to the stable distribution though and have raised problems because of extra battery or RAM consumption.
As I wrote in the latter part of the post you quoted, Android style of guiding developers is enforcing one and overall is beneficial to the end user. Generally people are happier if phone is fast responsive and some lazy programmed applications do not run at all then in the background, than having applications which drain battery, RAM and other resources in the background for vain.
What it comes the mentioned (non-confirmed?) web-browser TAB:s reloading or PDF-viewer starting always from the page one when brought from background to the foreground in the Android system, there are obvious bugs in those programs - lazy or novice mobile programming again.
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2012-05-07
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2012-05-07
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2012-05-07
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And that's the issue. In iOS, if you register a background process, that process can only run for a maximum of 10 minutes (WTF?). If ICS registered background processes don't have time limits, and it appears that they don't, that's a big difference.
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2012-05-07
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Oh, yeah, the Android default web-browser has the reloading problems... The Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader (where all the developers are lazy ?) also shows the 1st page of the document after being suspended. I repeat : these problems happen not in 100% of cases, but in some 10-20% of cases when there are other (heavy) softwares open.
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2012-05-07
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Mission accomplished?!?