Thread: Gizmodo writes a feature story on multitasking, ignores Maemo
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johnel is offline johnel
2010-04-30 , 08:24
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I just shows you how ignorant many IT journalists can be.

The term "multi-tasking" seems to be a loose definition.

The older Palm devices could only do one thing at a time but gave the appearance of multi-tasking..

Pretty much what android does anyway. Probably iPhone too.

The author is an idiot.

To quote his reply in the Comments section:
Which is another reason I didn't cover Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Symbian--their models are relatively simple, as I say at the end.
I find that comment amusing because "multi-tasking" by iPhone & Android is really "task-switching".

Not that I take Gizmodo or similar sites seriously anyway. The "Journalists" who write this stuff rarely have any reasonable technical background anyway.
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