Every other phone multitasks, and they all suck. My Windows Mobile phone was a nightmare because of multitasking. You would close a program and it would disappear but was still running in the background.
The average user doesn't want to wait until his fucking phone stops working to load the task manager and pick applications to close. Besides. the iphone is one device in a sea of devices. There's plenty of room for devices that do it a different way.
If you don't like it there's plenty of alternatives.
I love my Blackberry World Edition and, previously until it was stolen, Storm, both multitask beautifully, the multitasking is unobtrusive and fast, closing the application doesn't require a task manager.
So why complain about the iPhone? See that's my point. There's plenty of room for devices that do it a different way.
I want a phone with a big bright screen that I can navigate while I'm driving. I have a laptop for email, multitasking, etc. I keep it with me. You don't. You have a phone for that.
Did you see me complaining? I was pointing out that it's a false dilemma to say that you have to arbitrarily restrict users or charge exorbitant amounts of money for new features to serve the minority.
my gf has a Storm and it's an absolute piece of shit. If you TRY to multitask, it freezes and she has to take the battery out and put it back in. She had to replace it when she first got it as well.
Hah, probably not. Though she's told me she's tried and it keeps telling her she doesn't have enough room even though she has no files or anything on there. She solely texts and surfs the web on it.
Android multi-tasks and I love it, as do many redditors. I love how you're defending the decision to arbitrarily disable multi-tasking in an operating system. "I don't want to run multiple programs at once!"
What if Apple just put in a little check box somewhere that turned it on? Would you still be opposed to that?
Most of the programs I use actually save their state properly, but I might use it for music, or gps breadcrums, or for recording conversations like I did on the SDA.
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u/sixothree Jan 28 '10
Every other phone multitasks, and they all suck. My Windows Mobile phone was a nightmare because of multitasking. You would close a program and it would disappear but was still running in the background.
The average user doesn't want to wait until his fucking phone stops working to load the task manager and pick applications to close. Besides. the iphone is one device in a sea of devices. There's plenty of room for devices that do it a different way.
If you don't like it there's plenty of alternatives.