Apple says they do not support multitasking because it is a hamper to stability and a drain on battery life. That clearly isn’t true—the iPad has plenty of processing power and battery capacity. Rumor is that Apple is going to add multitasking in a future OS release. This rumor likely is true. Is Apple somehow going to make background applications not consume any battery? Of course not. These excuses are straw men.
Actually this argument is a straw man. Apple can't make background processes run for free contrary to the laws of thermodynamics. However they can limit the resources they can use through the right API. (Register functions with realtime constraints, and request a "level of service.")
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Apple says they do not support multitasking because it is a hamper to stability and a drain on battery life. That clearly isn’t true—the iPad has plenty of processing power and battery capacity. Rumor is that Apple is going to add multitasking in a future OS release. This rumor likely is true. Is Apple somehow going to make background applications not consume any battery? Of course not. These excuses are straw men.
Actually this argument is a straw man. Apple can't make background processes run for free contrary to the laws of thermodynamics. However they can limit the resources they can use through the right API. (Register functions with realtime constraints, and request a "level of service.")