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Originally Posted by HansTWN
That should be more an excuse from the old days with power hungry components and limited RAM. Not to mention that I could do the exact same thing on WM 6.5 running slingplayer in the background without a hitch many years ago.
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Ah you bring back memories of my WinMo phone. I miss the constant battery pulls (times a day was my min.) Listening to music in the background, while using the device and having my phone miss a call because the mp3/video player would not relinquish resources fast enough. Or having to close down apps when my performance is seriously degraded. But probably what I miss most is not having to carry three batteries so I can make it through the day.... Good times. Android and Apple have ruined it for us.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
The right way to do it would be a "true multitasking" switch, which you can set globally or for specific apps or processes. Standard setting would be off, so that most users are not affected.
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I contest that you are wrong here and that you are buying the wrong device for your needs. If you are in need of a multitasking tablet buy a Windows tablet or buy an Android tablet and install Linux on it.
The Android/Apple paradigm is a design that is optimized for battery utilization and primarily a single app use. These OS also come from a phone background where the need to simultaneously multi-task is limited. Also the resource where and still are limited. Also while you might also argue that WebOS and WM allow true multitasking they also limit the no. of apps that can multitasking. Before you say that is still better than Android/Apple I will say this one app can take up all of those tasks(Youtube can take up 3 tasks)
Right now Android is the only mobile OS that allows as many multitasking apps as you wish to run, the only limitation is the devleoper has to decide if he wants to make his app multitask.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Hell, on a tablet you could easily accomodate 2-3 open Windows. As these things get more powerful, we should be able to use them more like real computers.
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Yes I see this coming in the future but it will take some time. Vendors like motorola have already implemented this in there Atrix Docking station, but so far it has been a faliure. Ubuntu is working with vendors so it can come pre isntalled on phones. It will act like an Android OS as a phone but when docked it will launch Ubuntu(Linux) and act as a full fleged OS.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Perhaps Windows 8 tablets will force everybody to up their game and not just engage in a spec fest for the fun of it.
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Well the current rumos are that Windows is going to limit the number of Metro apps to two. For me this is a huge step backwards. How does a full fledged OS limit the number of multitasking apps