from a developer's standpoint, they must have put a whole lot of duck tape on that thing, or working on it for a looong time.

I once wrote a program that was made for a specific customer. One day 'the big heads' approcahed me and said "Hey, starting monday, your program needs to work for this other customer too" . right when he said that I heard the sound of a record screeching to a halt on a record player. I didn't build it for that.

I ended up having to work till the late evening that friday, and come in on saturday, and work from 6 AM to 5 or 6 PM to get it to work.

but this is even still different then that. they had to figure out how this is GOING to multi task. should the programs pause? should the programs keep going? this must have taken alot of meetings, and alot of project planning to do it right (if they did do it right).

kudos on them for actually going back and fixing something rather than just making a new device and OS.

however, there is one very important thing. the iphone OS's RAM (and other hardware for that matter) might not be so hot at handling this kind of stuff. sure in the demo they have 4 or 8 apps, but maybe these are the simpler apps that dont require much.

I myself have a feeling that although multi tasking is present, it might be more of a "barely works" feature, as opposed to other phones made to do this from the beginning.