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Originally Posted by anyonebutedmonton
So... Correct me if I am wrong... But it seems that apple deconstructed the idea of multitasking, identified what it is we like about multitasking, then built something to retain those core features.
This isn't really multitasking, but will have all the benefits without the battery drain.
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It’s real multitasking - the apps have code running in the background without question. What they don’t have is background execution of the full superset of API calls available to them - for example, an app can’t update its display in the background, as thats not needed in the single-window view that the iPhone provides.
So apps can work on data in the background, can go idle when not doing anything interactive with the user, and can receive OS provided notification of events and stuff, and then take action on them.
It’s real multitasking, just not a multi-window multitasking like you think of on a desktop