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2010-03-30
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Hell desktop multitasking is mostly a myth. On Windows, anyway.
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2010-03-30
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Originally Posted by azz
Heck my Treo 650 could play music while I surf. My Treo 180 even had a proof-of-concept app installed that would play jittery music while surfing, if you could cram a significantly long WAV file into the device memory on top of all your apps and files
I read this too...I was like...what?! so how's my n900 playing music while I surf? F-ing engadget trying to spin a fast one to favor MS and Iphone... A pause feature...LMAO...
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2010-03-30
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Originally Posted by felbutss
Seriously?! Do you remember the source?
http://www.engadget.com
has funding from apple. mmooree brainwashing. how can it be a myth lol WDFFFF
Multitasking to expedite the time to switch between non active\idle applications is an unnecessary resource hog (ram, swap file, cpu) if you can figure out a way to launch/close the apps in a similar amount of time;
'True' use of multitasking (in the mobile context), imho, is to run a service that needs to maintain background connection: downloader, streaming media, navigation system, continuous calculation, etc.
A big difference between the necessity to implement multitasking on a desktop system and a mobile one is in their screen size. When you can only display one (optimized) application at a time, then you lose the requirement of looking at 2 (or more) apps running together side by side.
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