| greenmedic88 said: I don't think anyone was under the impression that iOS multitasks the same way as OSx or Windows. The point was that it does multitask within the memory constraints of a tablet. These same memory restrictions exist for any Android tablet, even though it manages tasks differently. The downside of the Android approach is that without manual control of a task manager, power management takes an unnecessary hit for all apps that don't need to run in the background, which is the majority of all tablet apps. According to the several articles I read, there is no need to close any apps in iOS 5.1, contrary to what the typical Apple Genius is telling customers. I'll put that to test by not closing anything over the next week, even if it means having dozens of "recently run apps" in the pull up menu. The memory stat utility in Desktop contradicts the claims though, meaning manually closing apps in the "recently run apps" menu does in fact free up memory. |
Previous mobile OS, like Symbian or WM, have multi-tasked in a similar fashion to the PC market. And by multi-tasking you think of processes running simultaneously. I understand why the current method is used in mobile devices, but I would not call it multi-tasking just resuming.
About the memory used, I think the recent list uses some memory for caching the icon images and names, just like iOS does this for its multiple screens. Tell us how your test goes, I'm sure it does use some memory, but is it negligible?
