Re: [LAU] Linux audio droid?

From: Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Feb 14 2010 - 14:32:04 EET

On 02/14/2010 10:06 PM, Arnold Krille wrote:
>> Android is an interesting platform though, not least because it does have
>> reasonable horsepower on the Nexus and it is multitasking. Why the iPhone
>> dropped that capability beats a lot of people.
>>
> I don't think the iphone dropped multitasking. Otherwise you would have to run
> the "phone" app all the time to be able to receive calls. And you couldn't
> receive short messages because that app is not running. What they disabled,
> probably because of extensive user-analysis, is the application switching in
> gui. And even that I am not entirely sure as I haven't actually gotten an i*
> in my hands...

They disabled userspace multi tasking. You can get access to it if you
jailbreak.

Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd

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