Microsoft Defends Lack of Multitasking
It seems that Apple is not the only company that is planning to don the cape of being stubborn. According to recent reports, it seems that Microsoft is wholly under the impression that users do not want multitasking features on their mobile phones.
According to Greg Sullivan, the senior product manager for Microsoft, the presence of multitasking will greatly reduce phone performance. He believes that above all else, users want smoothness and speed on their handsets –at the cost of multitasking.
What Greg, and many others at Microsoft fail to realize however, is that multitasking and handset slowdowns, are actually issues that Apple has already been through. The first Apple iPhone OS came out lacking these very same features, and in the past couple of years, users had continuously asked for these to be implemented. In time, Apple saw that the functions are truly needed and decided to put them in.
Microsoft should already know better. That was the truth for Apple before, and that is how it will be –there is not point not adding in multitasking features.
Even if it means that the handset would slow down when running multiple apps; that is a decision that Microsoft has to give to the users, not decide on their own. Users who are specific about having the best and fastest device performance would naturally not make use of the feature. But the rest of the smart phone community would not mind the occasional slowdown, would certainly appreciate having multitasking.
Cut and paste is a more nonsensical issue. Microsoft should know better than any other developer how important the function can be, but they still decided to do without it. While the selective text selection feature will be useful (for addresses, contact numbers, emails), it will not be able to copy shopping lists, product names and other important bits of information.