I think apple missed something that i noticed while using a Pre for about a year and following along in the forums.
People LIKE to close apps easily and not leave them running. Yeah i know..its saved state. But people don't care about that distinction. When you're done with an app, you're done. It needs to disappear. And Palm made it fun to close them by just "swooshing" them away.
Others would chime in saying leave those apps open. You got a Pre, it's multitasking. You CAN leave them open. But most don't do that. It's a weird mentality.
Personally, i feel let down by apple's version of multitasking. It sucks. Not for the reasons above but because it isn't true multitasking. And it relies on 3rd party dev's updating their apps. It's inconsistent. It doesn't "just work" and is unlike Apple. Where copy n paste was well implemented after apple taking their sweet time, multitasking just isn't..even after apple took their sweet time.
I can't say anymore what apple does, it does well. Because that's not true. Apple threw out the 3GS design and changed the hardware. They need to do something like that with iOS because unlike the 3GS design, this does need fixing..at least where multitasking and notifications are concerned.
Last edited by cardfan; 08-01-2010 at 09:22 AM.
08-01-2010 09:14 AM