>>>>>>I didn't know you could have more than one app displayed on an iPad ?
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>>>>>You can on an Android phone too. Just hold down the home key and you switch back and forth for recently opened apps and it will launch more than one if you want and you can switch back and forth via the long press on the home key.
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>>>>But we were discussing having more than one app *on screen* at the same time....
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>>>Perhaps they are, just not in the visible area ;-)
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>>Bit of a fine distinction :-}
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>Not if the other app isn't actually running. (see above)

They are running in the background, not the same as visible of course but when you switch back they are still running where you left them... i don't see how a small screen would support multiple running apps other than perhaps on the desktop and you could slide through the screens like you do now. I never could figure out why be able to slide from left to right just to see more shortcuts or widgets. Allow us to run an app on them and then you could slide left to right etc to switch between the apps.

Still, not my cup of tea for a phone. I may want to run a map locator on one screen and make or receive a phone call or text on another (I know a lot of folks play music and watch videos on theirs), but other than that, I don't use my phone for much more than that other than connecting to my bank account so I can transfer money to daughter - which seems to be a regular occurrence. :)