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    SubjectRe: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three
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    On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Felipe Contreras
    <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
    >> Once "the right solution" exists and solves our problems, we'll
    >> certainly look into switching over to it.  I've yet to see a proposal
    >> in all this arguing that appears to me to be an improvement over what
    >> we have today with suspend blockers.  I find the "don't do what you're
    >> doing because someday, somebody will do it better" to be an
    >> uncompelling argument.
    >
    > That was not an argument, it was an opinion. If you want an argument
    > go back to read this one:
    > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1021834
    >
    >> Given your opinion that Android lacks multitasking (what? really?)
    >
    > This is what I'm talking about when I say multi-tasking, Android
    > certainly doesn't have anything remotely like that:
    > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7emvUBpEkbU

    Home + pick app -> switch to the app in whatever state it was in.

    Home (longpress) -> recent app list + pick app from popup -> switch to
    recent app in whatever state it was in.

    pull down alert windowshade + pick app from alerts list -> switch to that app

    I routinely flip back and forth between email / browser / IM / musicplayer / etc

    I have no problem with you perhaps liking the visuals of the N900
    better, but to say Android lacks multitasking (as you explain it
    below) is incorrect:

    > By multi-tasking I mean me (the user) being able to perform multiple
    > tasks at the same time.

    > For example: writing an email, while browsing the web, while having IM
    > conversations. Obviously not exactly at the same time; start writing
    > an email, go browse for some url, copy, answer a pending IM message,
    > go back to the mail, paste.

    As far as implementing app switching with a deck of cards metaphor,
    I've seen that done by some OEMs with Android, though it's not the
    default system UI.

    Brian
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