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Activated Node J Arcane's Avatar     Join Date     Jun 2011
Quote Originally Posted by CMaster View Post     Interesting. So
they can multitask (to some extent) but the default behaviour is
not to?     Sorta. iOS didn't actually support any form of
multitasking prior to version 4, it always did the save state
and quit thing except for certain built-in apps like the music
player. Then in iOS 4, they introduced the current method of
multitasking, where apps are allowed to keep doing their thing
in the background for a limited time, enough to wrap up a task,
and some apps that need to keep running like GPS or music apps
can background themselves.      It's limited, and up to the app
developer to choose to use it (or choose to update to support
it, for those apps that were around before the update, some apps
still don't even support the "save and quit" behavior from
iOS3). The reason for all this is that Apple didn't want to go
full multitasking fo