ARM chip, as used in current smartphones, close-up and personal!
Shock, horror: Multitasking has been working for a decade and a half!
Published by Steve Litchfield at
Why the big deal over problems with multitasking in a phone? Why the cries of "Can't be done" from the Apple world? I've been multitasking on just about every device I've owned since 1993.... What's really behind the current negative thinking over background applications on the iPhone? I put forward my experiences with Psion, EPOC and Symbian-OS powered devices over fifteen years as evidence that a well-written operating system shouldn't need kludges like Apple's 'Push notification' scheme.