We rarely hear from Nokia around here, then out of the blue Nokia marketing starts a thread asking about multi-tasking. My butt clenched a little. My fear is that Nokia is questioning whether or not a computer OS is necessary on a phone; that maybe Apple and Google know something they don't. Well, they do and they don't. At the moment, they're both so concerned about user experience that they've been sacrificing almost everything to get it. Which makes some sense given the current CPU offerings.

But people are multi-taskers, and we would like our devices to multi-task with us. I didn't buy Nokia for the hardware, I bought Nokia for the native OS that it came with. And I will continue to buy my handhelds based almost solely on the native OS.

I do appreciate this thread though. As much as I'm a realist, I like to consider myself an optimistic realist. So, hopefully this thread will inspire Nokia to continue to lead the way in the only thing they seem to be leading these days: OS selection.

But if you think that both Google and Apple aren't gearing up for the multi-core future, then you're delusional. I give Nokia about a year and half to reinvent multi-core multi-tasking, or they will be toast.