ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 14 August 2013 09:31:31 Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 14.08.2013 09:29, Michael Zanetti wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 August 2013 09:07:52 Thomas Voß wrote:
> >> Hey Fabio,
> >> 
> >> no, applications are not allowed to run in background. Our application
> >> lifecycle is strict in this respect and we only guarantee focused
> >> applications to be running.
> > 
> > Does that mean I will have an Ubuntu Edge phone with 4GB of RAM, 8 CPU
> > cores and cannot do multitasking on it?
> 
> I don't think anyone specified the phone to have 8 CPU cores - where did
> you read that?

Nowhere... I think you get my point...

> How is "app authors can write daemons" = multitasking?

How does this relate? Thomas said there will be no running apps in the 
background / minimzed apps, which to me means there will be no multitasking.