@Glenn, inline below. :-) On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Glenn Sequeira <gsequeira@gmail.com> wrote:
SJ at the Apple Special Event (April 2010):
"It's like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it. In multitasking, if you see a task manager... they blew it. Users shouldn't ever have to think about it."
SJ is a good sales man and is can easily sell refrigerators to eskimos! :-))) Apple has cult following so the day he says jump, one can always expect the cult followers to jump first, then think later.
Larry Page & Eric Schmidt at Google Zeitgeist (May 2010):
"I have noticed there are a few people who have phones where there is software running in the background that just sort of exhausts the battery quickly. If you are not getting a day, there is something wrong."
"The primary consumer of the battery life on these phones is the transmit/receive circuit. So tuning that and obviously figuring out a way to not use too much of that extends your battery life."
"And people bring in applications that are not particularly smart about that, which is what Larry is trying to get at."
That multi-tasking and battery life argument is not justified but actually strengthens the argument that the iPad is nothing more than an over-sized iPhone. In phones it is acceptable to have limitations. In anything else, sorry that falls short of any expectations.