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They told you what they needed multitasking for.

At the moment, on my Symbian phone, I can listen to Spotify while surfing the web. You cannot do that on an iPhone or iPad.

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I don't think you need full multitasking for this. If the OS handles that situation (e.g. one app is allowed to access the screen, one the speaker) then that's enough and it avoids the complexity of having full threading.

The iPhone doesn't allow this - so I doubt the iPad will either...

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