jcp007
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You're right. In common English multitasking is doing 2 or more things at once. So when I'm cleaning the house while listening to music, I'm multitasking well. But we aren't talking about common English. We are talking about computers or technical terms of said computer function. So when talking about multitasking in computers, while they multitask tons of things in the background, what we are describing is two or more things on your screen.
So when I talk about task switching or switching between the latest tasks that you have performed, I don't just use words that are not related and can confuse a typical consumer. For example, I don't call the recent app button the multitask button because a) that's not what Google or Android calls it, and b) the function doesn't do a multitask event on your screen, it just opens up the task switcher to allow you to switch between your recent apps.
Speaking of the task switcher, why didn't Google just call it the multitasking page if it describes what your taking about? The answer is simple. It doesn't. They call it the task switcher because you use it to switch between the apps that you recently used. And if you read some of the functions of such "thingie" you'll find that you can remove such recent apps (not multitask apps) from the task switcher by swiping them away (or in the case of the S6 you not only can do it that way, but also by hitting the close button (the X)).
This might be a boring topic to discuss in your point of view. But remember, this forum is here to help people learn about their phone and not confuse them more. It's because people in general didn't learn the technical terms properly is how this got confusing to most people. So confusing for some that when they try to make an informative video that the do called experts sometimes call it the wrong name and further confusing the general public on what he is talking about.
I'm just wondering, do you always call the screen on a phone the lookieloo or do you call or the screen? Do you call the home button the dropdown button? Do you call the battery the energy dodad? And lastly do you call the back button the forward button because it forward you to the last thing that you were on?
Many of the above are words used by lay people and that's fine as they are not here to help, teach, or inform anyone, but are here to ask for help. There is also no reason not to use general terms to describe a button when a lay person doesn't know what you are talking about, such as the overflow menu button is described allot like a button that looks like a hamburger.... But we don't call it the hamburger button generally, we call it the overflow menu button.
Notice how I still didn't talk about the test in question yet? That's because this test can have drastically different results for each time that you do it. In fact, if I'm not mistaken this isn't the first time the S6 was tested in such a way by this website. Only the m9 wasn't included back then just before the reviews were out. And in that test between the two phones (S6 vs ip6) the iPhone 6 won instead of the S6 like in this case.
Just think, the S6 was winning the whole time, yet maybe location services enabled just before he tried to open the game and NOW the game couldn't connect to Google's play game service to log in the user and enable any saves, thus why the game hung the second time it tries to load. It's a bad test. A really bad test and should be taken with a huge grain of flavor infusion material that everyone calls salt and not some other name because it is popular at the time to mix up words.
PS: I'm sorry to the readership for not keeping my promise.
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Switching between two open apps using the recent apps button is multitasking only by the semantic distinction that more than one task being accomplished on a concurrent basis. With the browser and email open on the display simultaneously, the technical definition is fullfilled. If a task is running in the background, then the GS6 is performing multitasking while concurrently running another one. To get to the concurrent task, we need to access the recent apps button to perform the actual switch so the two tasks that were being performed at the same time are paused while the separate, concurrent task is accessed. At this point, you are accessing only one task. In the GS6 multitasking example mentioned earlier, you have two tasks available at the same time to be accessed without having to stop and select the recent apps button to get the other task.