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Originally Posted by Jeff Kirvin
It's all about the user experience.
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Yes, but I argue having the OS support more of these features, including multitasking, should in theory improve the user experience. Relying on developers to incorporate multitasking into their product can result in inconsistent applications -- or worse -- some programs won't ever be rewritten to support multitasking.
As to WM being sluggish about it, if MS were to fix the darn Close button (:roll
and do some performance optimization, I believe they'd be able to accomplish more than acceptable performance while offering the same multitasking mechanisms that are currently in WM.
And, practically, most recent WM devices are very decent at multitasking despite this. On my Smartphone, I'm always running 5 programs, but almost never notice any performance difference between running one or running 5. Time will tell if new PalmSource releases remain snappier.
--janak