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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Frankly, I think majority of smartphone users don't care about how multi-tasking is implemented/defined. For most, their definition of multi-tasking on a smartphone is being able to listen to music while checking Facebook/Twitter, browsing the web or playing games. As long as their phones can do that, they'd probably be happy.
I reckon a select few Android users care (mostly ones who can be found on enthusiast forums such as XDA - myself included  ) but for majority of users, I don't think it matters one way or another. |
Actually I am not sure if we have true multi-tasking in Android. I have the HP Touchpad running both WebOS and ICS 4.04. In WebOS I can run a flash video (like Hulu) in the background and it does not stop when I switch to another window, in Android it stops and restarts when I return.
There is this "Cornerstone" hack which is supposed to provide real multitasking with 3 open windows at the same time. I didn't give it a thorough test drive yet.
Windows Mobile 5 and 6, those had real multitasking.