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["Roberto Colistete Jr." <roberto.colistete@xxxxxxxxx>]

Em 14-08-2013 08:18, Zisu Andrei escreveu:
> Scott, careful, we might end up on the bad side of things, as 
> developers would want their app to be running all the time so he will 
> abuse this, and we end up having all the things running all the time 
> and the enduser gets bad performance, battery life and overall bad 
> experience.

    Well, Ubuntu Touch is said by Canonical to enable convergence of 
devices, e.g., a smartphone which becomes a PC by connecting a monitor 
(by cable), mouse and keyboard (by Bluetooth).

    Let us remember that a notebook user with Linux, Mac OS and Windows 
has real multitasking. The user is responsible for opening and closing 
softwares, if some open software has heavy load and waste battery life 
fast as hell, it is up to the user decide if it will remain open or be 
closed. Sometimes the user really needs to run a 6 thread calculation 
for 30 minutes on a quad-core notebook. Conclusion : user has freedom.

    So, all of a sudden, desktop and notebook users when switch to a 
smartphone can't be responsible anymore to decide which softwares should 
remain open or be closed ?

    Psion Epoc 32 users (from 11-16 years ago) have real preemptive 
multitasking on pocket computers with 16MB of RAM, some users have 
devices which lasted 5 years without rebooting, without the system 
closing softwares by itself. Even also using my Psion Revo+ for 
developing (editing/compiling/testing) on device, it remained 2 years 
without rebooting. Not a bad experience at all.

    IMHO, It is a joke to have in 2013 quad core & 2GB RAM smartphones 
with not real multitasking.

    I can say that a lot of future Ubuntu Touch users expect to have 
almost all features of Ubuntu for PC's, including real multitasking. 
They are fed up of Android, iOS and Windows Phone limitations. So don't 
let Ubuntu Touch repeat these limitations.