On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Dan wrote:
At 4:44 PM -0700 4/6/2010, Andrew Le wrote:
I heard it was FAST, to move from one and to another and to just
use each app is FAST...
A whole computer dedicated to running ONE app at a time. Yea, it
better be fast!
This is not true. The iPad (as does the iPhone and iPod touch) all do
multitask, it's just that those apps allowed to do so are a small,
regulated group. Apple even did an iPhone ad about it:
<http://www.apple.com/iphone/gallery/ads/#wheres-the-movie-large> That
is indisputably multitasking.
When was the last time you did only one thing on a computer?
At a time? right now.
Right now I'm writing this email. In ten seconds I may switch over to
firefox to work some more on the business app, or I might go to my
CoRE app to do something on the Windows server, or pop open a terminal
window to work on the Linux servers or I might write some code in
BBEdit.
But I'm not doing all of those at once.
Now I might be listening to iTunes at the same time, but you know
what? I can do that on the iPad, too....
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