It's probably a far stretch, but I think ATT/HTC deliberately made the multitasking suck (and unwilling to fix it) because they want you to hit your data cap limit sooner.
Every time you navigate away from any app that needs internet, to do something (e.g. watch a YouTube vid), and then return back, the app reloads. When it reloads, it gobbles data. Overtime, those unnecessary reloads will start taking a hit on your precious limited data.
Now this may only apply with certain apps. The one app I've noticed (which I use a lot) is Dolphin browser. I was initially skeptical if the webpage reload was an actual "reload" or just a "page re-rendering", so I did a little experiment (which you can do too). I went to a site, after it loaded, I went to do a couple other tasks, turned off my internet, returned back to Dolphin, it tried to reload, but failed and returned the "no internet" thingy. In a normal situation, it should just display what I was previously viewing since it was already preloaded anyway. But instead, I returned to a blank page. Now, this may not be an actual use case scenario for most ppl, but you can imagine how annoying it is if you were viewing a site before, and then walked to an area with no coverage, but can't view what you've already previously loaded. Now, I tried this with the chrome browser, and noticed it behaves differently (as expected). If there's no internet, it just re-loads (from cache I guess) what you were previously viewing. But if there's internet, I really don't know if it'll be reloading from cache or from the internet. So, I guess it depends on the app.
Anyway, my point is, if you love hopping around between apps, and they're unnecessarily reloading (because of the lousy multitasking), you might be gobbling more data than you'd like. Which ATT would gladly charge you for once you exceed by 1 byte
What do you guys think?
Developer of Dock for Android/iOS/webOS, Panes for iPad, Glimpse for TouchPad
Every time you navigate away from any app that needs internet, to do something (e.g. watch a YouTube vid), and then return back, the app reloads. When it reloads, it gobbles data. Overtime, those unnecessary reloads will start taking a hit on your precious limited data.
Now this may only apply with certain apps. The one app I've noticed (which I use a lot) is Dolphin browser. I was initially skeptical if the webpage reload was an actual "reload" or just a "page re-rendering", so I did a little experiment (which you can do too). I went to a site, after it loaded, I went to do a couple other tasks, turned off my internet, returned back to Dolphin, it tried to reload, but failed and returned the "no internet" thingy. In a normal situation, it should just display what I was previously viewing since it was already preloaded anyway. But instead, I returned to a blank page. Now, this may not be an actual use case scenario for most ppl, but you can imagine how annoying it is if you were viewing a site before, and then walked to an area with no coverage, but can't view what you've already previously loaded. Now, I tried this with the chrome browser, and noticed it behaves differently (as expected). If there's no internet, it just re-loads (from cache I guess) what you were previously viewing. But if there's internet, I really don't know if it'll be reloading from cache or from the internet. So, I guess it depends on the app.
Anyway, my point is, if you love hopping around between apps, and they're unnecessarily reloading (because of the lousy multitasking), you might be gobbling more data than you'd like. Which ATT would gladly charge you for once you exceed by 1 byte
What do you guys think?
Developer of Dock for Android/iOS/webOS, Panes for iPad, Glimpse for TouchPad
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