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Originally Posted by ficbot
Here are two examples, and bear in mind, I am a fairly low-end user who spends 99% of my time in Word and Firefox.
1) I make Powerpoint shows sometimes to use with songs I teach my students. This involves typing the lyrics onto the slides and using pictures to illustrate them. Typically, I have the internet in one window, the slide show in the other and I can rapidly switch back and forth between them to paste in a picture. I am not sure how I would do such a thing on an iPad other than quitting Safari and opening back up iWork a hundred times in a row...
2) When I play the slide show, I play it with the song. So I open my music player, start the song and then tab over to the already-open slide show and hit play. If I had to return to the home screen and wait for iWork to launch, the song would be half-over by then. And if I want to play a second song and slide show after the first one is done, it seems it would be more time consuming to do this on the iPad...
Fwiw my dad, who is in web media, told me his office was underwhelmed by the iPad...
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If you bounce to the Home page on an iPod Touch from Safari, it doesn't close Safari. When you tap the Safari icon again, you're back where you were, with very minimal delay. Obviously I haven't seen the iWork apps in action, but they could very well be similar.
The underlying OS is very similar to OSX-- the interface is the main difference, I think. The multitasking is there, you just don't see more than one app on the screen at a time.
And I'm not even sure about that last-- in Safari you can switch to a view that lets you quickly flip between open web browser windows. With a larger screen, the iPad might have something like Exposé to make this simple for all apps. We don't know that yet, but it would make sense, either on release or shortly thereafter.