On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:09:54 -0600, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@aNOoSPAMl.com> wrote in <Ly72m.981$KM3.83@newsfe02.iad>:

>At 29 Jun 2009 11:25:44 -0500 Jon Ribbens wrote:

>> That makes even less sense. An phone is not a desktop computer.
>> Why *should* what's done on one be appropriate for the other?
>
>An iPhone has the power of Wintel and Mac OS laptops built several years ago,
>so excuses that some of the restrictions, like prohibiting background
>execution, are due to "limited RAM/power, etc." make less sense given that
>context.

More to the point, standard cell phones with far less resources do such
multitasking easily.

One problem, of course, is that Mac OS X isn't a true RTOS. (iFans will
of course claim it is everything, but then they don't know what a true
RTOS actually is and why that matters.)

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Best regards,
John <http:/navasgroup.com>

If the iPhone is really so impressive,
why do fans keep making excuses for it?