On 3 Jul 2007, at 11:31, Jesse Ross wrote: > Interesting commentary from John Gruber about the iPhone's app > switching: > >> SWITCHING APPS: I keep looking for some way to close or quit an >> app when I’m done with it. I’ve done this over and over with the >> same apps. “Use it then close it or quit it” isn’t the metaphor on >> the iPhone, however. When you’re done with an app, you just tap >> the Home button. What happens to apps when you do this is not >> exposed; there’s no concept of quitting or closing, just >> switching. I think this is a great design, I’m just having trouble >> getting used to it.
Sounds a lot like EPOC. You didn't usually quit apps with EPOC, you just switched to the new one. There was a quit feature in each app, but this was only ever used when you ran out of memory (which happened surprisingly infrequently on a machine with only 256KB of RAM). _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
