Re: [NTLK] OT Palm Pre

The iPhone branch of OS X is just as capable of multitasking as the
Mac branch, there is a very important difference you are missing - the
difference between the OS not being capable of multitasking and the OS
vendor making a choice not to allow 3rd party apps to run in the
background - are two explicitly different thing. Pretending they are
the same is a great falicy.

-DME

On Jul 20, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Ryan Vetter <physicalconstants@yahoo.ca>
wrote:

>
> 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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