2. iOS can and routinely does do multitasking, else you could not listen to music while doing anything else, or browse the web while making a phone call, or get maps and directions from TomTom while listening to podcasts.
Correct, but you can't be writing a document in Pages while reviewing financial reports in Numbers. So any multitasking currently is limited to what Apple felt it could allow safely.
I just looked.
Neither of these apps are ones that *do* anything in the background (such as play music or video or plot your location). So the very meaning of multitasking in this case is quite limited.
If I open a table in Numbers, then switch to Pages and open a document there, then switch back to Numbers, I find I am exactly where I was when I *left* Numbers. And when I switch back to Pages, I find that I am exactly where I was in the document when I *left* Pages.
So, in fact, Pages and Numbers *do* multitask on the iPad.
What, exactly, do you mean by "you can't be writing a document in Pages while reviewing financial reports in Numbers" ?
In general, *people* can't multitask. We task-switch frequentlly, however.
... might it be that iOS allows multitasking for any apps but the different app developers decided not to bother including it?
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