Re: [NTLK] OT Palm Pre

Hello,

--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Mr. David M. Ensteness <denstene@mac.com> wrote:

> 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.

I have to ask: was crippling this ability strictly an *engineering* decision? Or more of a "Let's grab all the money we can by dinging 3rd party apps"-type decision? :)

Best,

James Fraser

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Received on Wed Jul 22 01:33:29 2009