Kyle wrote:
> That's one of the advantages that the Droid has now over the iPhone. 

I saw an interesting article about this.  Phones generally don't do that 
sort of multitasking because you don't have any swap space, so if your app 
is written "knowing" how much RAM a phone has, it'll generally not get along 
well with others. Droid has a system call that says "I'm nuking you - 
package up what you need to recover your state."  So something like 
navigation would just package up the destination and options, and would 
throw away the tiles and the path data, until you popped it back up to the 
front, whereupon it would re-download the map and recalculate the path.

I'm not sure how Apple is going to make the multitasking work with legacy 
apps that don't implement something liek that.

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   Yes, we're traveling together,
   but to different destinations.

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