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I think MS was trying to avoid the issues shown in this video . Some people contended that the video was disingenuous, because the demonstrator should have waited until the Android phone went through its start up routine. But wasn't the demonstrator making the point that trying to do several things at once (e.g. interacting with the phone while it is doing certain activities) can lead to poor user experiences?
My opinion is that unless MS has the Windows Phone 7 OS monitor application performance, and preemptively manage their behavior (such as throttling their resource use, or marking them so that they can no longer act in a multitasking manner), then I certainly don't believe MS should allow Windows Phone 7 to act any differently than it does so now. In fact, I think Windows Phone 7 should approach multitasking in the future, by doing things such as automatically profiling application behavior, and sending back data to developers about bad acting applications. I believe the OS should also make recommendations to users about what the it should do about these applications. E.g. ban the applications from multitasking, or disable them until their developers address their performance issues with an update.
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