On 14 Aug 2007, at 00:02, Jeff Andros wrote:
um, do realize that we are working on a resource constrained
system, and probably will be for the forseeable future... I don't
see this as TOO much of a problem, as long as those apps unload
most of themselves from memory when they're not running, and they
spend almost all of their time sleeping... but watch out for that.
We'll have to see what people can come up with for this before I
run this on my system
Exactly why the iPhone is very responsive and Windows Mobile phones
aren't. Apple keeps things simple.
You need not worry about getting lost in applications if you have a
button hardwired to the home screen. Windows Mobile has this on the
smartphone edition, trouble is it's very fiddly to get back into any
application you've come out of.
Being able to see a list of what is open and being able to switch to
them is important for usability.
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