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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
You're not much of a computer person are you? Or perhaps I missed your sarcasm. On my computer I'm constantly surfing the web/chatting on IM/listening to music. I'll occasionally check my email at the same time. Now I wouldn't listen to music and watch a movie at the same time (that would be silly) but I would appreciate the chance to chat to a friend at the same time as watching a movie
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I'm very much a computer person - I work in the industry, but I have to disagree with the sentiment expressed here for a couple of reasons:
(1) Those of us who constantly spend all of our time multi-tasking (e.g., reading the web in 25 tabs, chatting, outlook, Visual Studio, a couple terminals, etc), often find that we end up going "around the bend" so to speak. That is, we appreciate more and more devices and software which helps us focus on what is really important. For example, I've known many people who download software which disables their internet for X amount of time while they do something else more important.
(2) This is not to say we disavow multi-tasking altogether. Even the iPhone is very good at doing the tasks you've mentioned at the same time - it checks your email and chats for you and notifies you if there is anything new. Then *you* can decide if it is worth stopping whatever you are doing to go answer the other thing. Listening to music is not a problem; you can have music behind any other software.
I'm not going to say that lacking the kind of multi-tasking other operating systems offer is the best thing since sliced bread, but I do think that it was a well-thought-out decision. It just happens to not be the verdict some people think they want.
I wouldn't worry myself too much on this topic anyway. I'm sure the iPad will support it in OS 4.0.