Mission completed!

The poll on multitasking is now closed. The results are impressive:more than 600 votes and more than 200 detailed comments.

In summary,
- over 80% keep typically 1 to 6 applications open on the multitasking view of the Nokia N900
- over 97% of all respondents pro-actively manage the amount of open apps
- only less than 1.5% of all respondents do not close apps actively and leave them all open
- at least 35% of all people detailing their open apps keep various third-party apps open

The final report has been uploaded now on slideshare under http://www.slideshare.net/peterschne...asking-in-n900

So, what happens with the results? You might be surprised.
As indicated at the invitation to this poll, the results such as "Close to 50% of technology enthusiasts using Nokia N900 keep typically 4 to 6 apps open." have become part of the product marketing material for Nokia's MeeGo 1.1 solution.

But, beyond this, the interim results have been made available to the Director Product Management, Director Product Development Program, VP MeeGo Computers R&D (Ari Jaaksi), Harmattan Chief UI designer, and many more. Actions have been initiated already from product management side.

The high amount of pro-active open apps management (over 97%) has led to an additional consideration on how the new Nokia MeeGo UI can maintain an easy way to open and close apps. The fair share of open third-party apps also should have an impact on the system architecture studies currently supporting the UI optimization.

Your contribution as a community and as individual in this poll is very much appreciated. This poll is naturally only one out of many insights in creating an iconic UI design, yet an important one. I'd like to thank also the Community Council to rally the troops to bring in more feedback to this poll.

As this was very useful, at least for me, I will try to do it again, probably on usage of Flash in the browser and plug-ins into the contacts/IM applications. Until then, thanks!