“There’s long been grumbling about the iPhone OS’s lack of multitasking capability, especially its suitability as a serious business smartphone. However, the clamor has cranked up by several magnitudes of intensity since the iPad announcement.
My own take is that going back to working without multitasking would be too much like reverting to the early Mac OS – before MultiFinder was introduced for System 5.”
– Charles Moore at Low End Mac, on a neat comparison. He mentions the old Switcher that paused “one running application while you launched another one.” I would think, with the iWork apps on the iPad, you have to have multitasking to get any kind of efficient work done.
Does anyone else here remember the MiniFinder? I used it on my 128K Mac. The iPhone OS Springboard reminds me a bit of MiniFinder: an intermediate screen of icons providing navigation between and among (mostly) non-multitasking apps.
Posted by Chris Ryan on March 25th, 2010.