http://www.hightech-edge.com/apple-ipad-mac-tablet-pc/6537/ Keep on the Cutting Edge of Computer IT and Military Technology Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.hightech-edge.com/apple-ipad-mac-tablet-pc/6537/comment-page-1/#comment-7914 Nick Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:05:33 +0000 http://www.hightech-edge.com/?p=6537#comment-7914 The "rumour" that the iPad doesn't multitask is not really a rumour at all since developers have access to the SDK (which is basically the same as for the iPhone) and are well aware of exactly what that iPad's capabilities are. Like the iPhone, iPad can only run one user application at once. That means that when you go back to the home screen, whatever application you were running quits, so it is impossible to run two applications simultaneously, or have one application doing something in the background while another is doing something in the foreground. For the most part this limitation is a non-issue for ordinary users. The kind of situation where it's annoying is if you want to listen to say, Spotify streaming music whilst browsing your email, or have an MSN chat open in the corner of the screen whilst working on a spreadsheet. These things are not possible on the iPad. The tradeoff, and the reason why Apple has made this decision, is that because only one app runs at once it can use the whole power of the processor and consequently iPad (and iPhone, iPod Touch, etc) all run blazingly fast compared to other devices with comparable hardware specs. The “rumour” that the iPad doesn’t multitask is not really a rumour at all since developers have access to the SDK (which is basically the same as for the iPhone) and are well aware of exactly what that iPad’s capabilities are.
Like the iPhone, iPad can only run one user application at once. That means that when you go back to the home screen, whatever application you were running quits, so it is impossible to run two applications simultaneously, or have one application doing something in the background while another is doing something in the foreground.
For the most part this limitation is a non-issue for ordinary users. The kind of situation where it’s annoying is if you want to listen to say, Spotify streaming music whilst browsing your email, or have an MSN chat open in the corner of the screen whilst working on a spreadsheet. These things are not possible on the iPad.
The tradeoff, and the reason why Apple has made this decision, is that because only one app runs at once it can use the whole power of the processor and consequently iPad (and iPhone, iPod Touch, etc) all run blazingly fast compared to other devices with comparable hardware specs.

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