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[Zisu Andrei <matzipan@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
>  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.


Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The current case treats the strict rigid
case of the Ubuntu Phone. If you read this thread closely, you will see
mentions of v1/v2 of the app lifecycle. V1 is not even finished.

 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.

The problem is not memory/cpu, but battery.

Zisu Andrei


On 14 August 2013 15:38, Roberto Colistete Jr.
<roberto.colistete@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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.
>