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RE: Comment by olafg
by Neolander on Fri 15th Apr 2011 11:15 UTC in reply to "Comment by olafg"
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Actually multitasking cause a drop in productivity

For the user, doing several things at once can indeed have this effect.

However, we are talking about what the machine, not its user, is doing. There's a difference. As an example, most mobile OSs feature a way to play a game while you're downloading a big mail attachment in the background. How are such background processes which do not directly interact with the user until their completion reducing its productivity, if handled right ?

But... iOS does actually multitask, and the app writer can make it run in the background. You cannot make openGL calls while runnning in the background, but that is a reasonable restriction.

This isn't what I've read :

Edited 2011-04-15 11:23 UTC

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