Interesting...Microsoft's impressive-looking new Windows 7 Phone OS seems to be taking the iPhone's approach towards multitasking:
http://gizmodo.com/5472240/is-there-...ike-the-iphone
Quote:
"The core operating system is a modern multitasking operating system. If you play music for example, the music will play back as you navigate around the experience...if you're using email, we have great support for push email and that happens in the background.
For third party applications—we'll get into a lot more detail on this in MIX—but we have a few ways we're going to make sure that third parties can bring their value to the user even when the app is not running. Live tiles are an example. Data feeds in the hubs are another example for some apps."
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And, oddly, will not include Flash, at least for v1.0..but they don't rule it out at a later date.