Hi:
While Apple's iPhone does offer some background processes (i.e. iPod), for the most part, it is not a multi-tasking OS. If you are a hard iPhone user, you quickly learn of its limitations in this regard. For example, the Stock app is not running in the background, neither is the weather app, among others. Apple gave us the bare minimum in terms of background processes. And the third party apps? Forget about doing other things while your, for instance, RSS reader updates its feeds over 3G: unless you are in that app, it ceases all activity until you have it launched again.
It is very Newton like in this respect.
The Pre, on the other hand, is a multi-tasking OS. I am not saying one is better than the other, but this is a fact.
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Received on Mon Jul 20 23:00:11 2009
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