Re: [PLUG] Linux friendly tablet?

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

This is a benefit of the design of iOS, where there's only ever one
app in the foreground and it takes up the entire screen.  If an app
does a good job of saving its state when it's suspended and restoring
it when it becomes active, it gives the illusion of multitasking even
if it was completely removed from memory.  I'm sure that 99% of iOS
users have no idea this is going on and just let the system handle
it.  In practice it works really well.

Walt

On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 05:18:19PM -0400, Doug Stewart wrote:
> Here's the definitive explanation for ios background tasks:
> 
> http://speirs.org/blog/2012/1/2/misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking.html/
> 
> --
> Doug Stewart
> 
> On Jul 7, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Yeah, with the lack of love for iOS from many, iPads don't have this
> >> problem. And the task killer is built into the OS.
> >> 
> > 
> > Does iOS actually multitask?  I know that it only supported that for
> > certain applications in the past.  Does it now let you run an
> > arbitrary number of ordinary applications at once?  If not, how do
> > they handle figuring out which ones to leave running?
> > 
> > I'll be the first to say that the Android design is clever.  I'm just
> > not convinced that it works - and it seems to trust too much to
> > well-behaved apps.  Maybe Apple's success comes from the fact that if
> > they don't like how the latest Facebook update works they can just
> > tell Facebook they can't distribute it.
> > 
> > Rich
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