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Originally Posted by m4r0v3r View Post
explaining the reason I haven't bought am Android phone and still own my n900.it is real time multi tasking and that's the first thing I look in a mobile device, like I said about battery life, I've been using the n9 with applications running and what not asks have never really drained the battery. IMean with the suggestion that applications should suspend when the screen is off, well what if I don't want them too, if I can choose to use the performance profile all the time and others can use the power saver multitasking that would be the best of both worlds would it not, bit then don't developers have to deal with two types of memory management or does the OS do that.Istill get annoyed at the n9 when I lock the screen and it decides to app playing a video or when I minimise it

And what on earth is the point apps eating battery in the background if not neaded? Second did i say we should go android way?

I think you misunderstand my point. What I am saying is, if you port apps from pc to battery/embedded devices you have too think twice how you implement your code and avoid to eat Cpu when not needed. If you do strace on every pc apps today you see them poll alot in the background alot of communication with dbus/x11 and so on. I dont know if this is a problem. But just giving some an example. Thing is devs have to Think more about such stuff when we port apps from linux on desktop. But still I agree they shall not break compability with pc linux as they have done with android but I dont think that will happen anyway