| Scoobes said: Firefox is a great browser but a complete resource hog. Apple may have added the limitation for that reason. Also, I was told that multitasking on the iPad unavailable (regardless of how much RAM it has)? |
Resources is not the reason. There are many apps on the app store that take up more resources. The reason is Apple will lot approve apps that duplicate functionality. I am ok with that, as long as you make the only option I have work.
As for multi-tasking, the iPad, iPod, and iPhone multi-task. They just don't let 3rd party apps do it. Mail, iPod, Phone, Nike+ all run in the background. The OS itself is the same core OS that a Mac runs (Darwin). It's just UNIX. If you hack the phone, you can make any app run in the background. I have done it to my phone, and I run Pandora in the background all the time.
In 3 days they are going to announce iPhone/iPad OS 4.0. I am sure the reason they are doing it so close to the launch of the iPad, is because it will have open multitasking in it.
