Re: [NTLK] OT Palm Pre

From: Steven Scotten <splicer_at_paroxysm.com>
Date: Mon Jul 20 2009 - 23:19:37 EDT

On Jul 20, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Mr. David M. Ensteness wrote:

> The iPhone branch of OS X is just as capable of multitasking as the
> Mac branch, there is a very important difference you are missing - the
> difference between the OS not being capable of multitasking and the OS
> vendor making a choice not to allow 3rd party apps to run in the
> background - are two explicitly different thing. Pretending they are
> the same is a great falicy.

True enough, but from the point of view of the end-user, the
distinction is useless, isn't it?

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