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Is iPad 's lack of multitasking a serious shortcoming to its usefulness ?

What do you think of multitasking as a feature ? must-have, good-to-have, not important etc... ?

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stakenouchi | 2 years, 1 month ago
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In my opinion I don't think the lack of multitasking is a serious shortcoming for the iPad's usefulness. I have an iPad and have been using it for almost a week now and love what I see and feel. There are many other features of the iPad that make it worth having. I guess the question you need to ask yourself is "Is multitasking that much of a deal breaker that the iPad is not worth the money right now?" In other words, is paying for an iPad now without multitouch going to be that much more detrimental than paying for one later with multitasking? To me, I don't think so. Although, multitasking will be nice to have and I am glad it is coming out in the new iPhone OS, which will make it's way to the iPad in the Fall, according to Apple yesterday. It will be a welcome addition to the iPad and the iPhone. But does multitasking really make the iPad not useful? Gosh, I would have a hard time making that claim.

Well, hope this helps. Let me know if you have any more questions or clarifications in my statement.

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chemist | 2 years, 1 month ago
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Definite an exciting and excellent question. I appreciate you for asking this question.

See the following:
“Some users are holding off on buying an iPad because of its lack of multitasking support for third-party apps. (CBC) On Thursday, Apple will”.

www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/.../tech-apple-iphone-os-4.html - 20 hours ago

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The iPad's lack of multi-tasking is really hurting the experience for me. In the iPhone and iPod touch, multi-tasking felt missing, but livable -- with a screen that small, it's already kind of difficult to have too much going on at once, anyway. But I think the roominess of the iPad makes you a lot more confident in managing multiple apps or streams of data at once, which is why the same lack of multi-tasking here instantly seems so conspicuously absent.
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6bats | 2 years, 1 month ago
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It will have multitasking on the next OS.
It's coming this summer.
However, if you want multitasking on the iPhone you will need to have the 3GS.
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