@storm14k said, "if the earlier iPhones actually tried to do what the Android devices were doing from day one they'd crash."
That's probably correct: the 2007 iPhone had 128MB of RAM -- twice the 64MB that the market-defining Blackberries had, and part of the iPhone's problem image of being a high-priced device. Of course, Android devices in 2007 had ZERO MB of RAM stock. Android Inc had only been bought by Google in 2005, too early to have gotten anything shipped.
In the 2009 3GS, RAM is up to 256MB. Those machines, as of yesterday, do the very kind of restricted multi-tasking that Android encourages for better performance, but does not enforce. But Apple doesn't attempt to multitask on my 3G, a slower, 2008 vintage device. Again, the 2008 vintage Androids don't multi-task AT ALL because there aren't any.
I'm all impressed by the many real innovations at Android but amazed that so many fools think newer, costlier devices somehow represent superior engineering. The 2010 Cadillac Esplanade has lots of neat cupholders and other convenience that the original Porsche 911 lacks, but it's the 911 that makes the Car of the Century list, while nobody even nominated any Cadillac. Android has lots of neat features, too, but about 3 people in total would've bought them if introduced in the time frame that you're laughing about.
"In reality all [Jobs] did was up the hardware specs to get [multitasking] done." Just plain FALSE. Apple has a history, going back to the Apple ][, of not throwing a ton of hardware at problems in an effort to get something out the door. While more hardware is obviously better, iOS4 really does multi-task well, with protection from excess battery drain, on real-world 256MB RAM machines.
We'll see reports on the 3GS, and this fall we'll see reports on how well multitasking works with the current iPad, also a 256MB device but with a faster CPU. From my modest experience as a developer, I expect nobody to complain.
Good to see people in such high spirits, but in trying to show how clever you are, you just make it seem like Android-boosting is all a way of bragging, "I'm more clever than you Apple sheep," the most offensive way to prove how totally wrong you are.
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