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Originally Posted by kermitology
This confused me as well, and I understand a little bit more, but I still don't get how I tell Skype to STFO (O = off).
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Easy, when you sign out of Skype, and navigate away from the Skype screen, the app will cease to run.
If you don’t sign out of Skype, but instead navigate away from it, see my post above for what happens.
You guys need to stop getting hung up on the notion of “quitting” apps. If an app has no work to do, and is not actively displayed on the screen, it is, for all intents and purposes, “quit”...if it is doing background work, like playing music, and you navigate away from it, it is still running..but stop the music playing and navigate away from the app, and its done, and out of the system memory.
This is what Apple means when they say you don’t need a task manager - you don’t need a task manager because apps with no work to do, are no longer tasks consuming resources. Apps that might have work to do, are registered with the system, and until they are needed to do their work, they aren’t tasks either.
It’s quite elegant, and once you stop thinking of apps as monolithic tasks, but as a collection of states and tasks, it makes much more sense to understand how this works.