It certainly isn't anymore with today's multi-GiB devices. But even back then, was it? Symbian managed quite nicely with even less memory (and Epoch32 before).

Android might have been supporting multitasking since day 1, but to this day it feels as if that feature is meant for "very special" apps only, and the developers have to jump through hoops to achieve it.

I rarely use an Android device, but I too am constant wondering which app still is runing and which one have been killed. And usually it's the other way around than what I'd expected, with the browser redownloading pages AGAIN etc.

They've dumbed it down too much.