Re: [iPad] That bar at the bottom.

 

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.

On my Windows computer and from what I've seen of Mac computers, I can have both applications open at once and can be looking at one while working in the other.  I can copy/paste between the two (or more) applications that I happen to have running at the same time.

I can copy/paste between Pages and Numbers on the iPad (to pick your own example).

Because of limitations of screen real estate, iOS won't let you display both Pages and Numbers on the screen at the same time, as you could on a desktop computer.

I can't have both open at once so I can see the numbers in Numbers while typing a document in Pages.

If you want multiple apps open on the same screen at the same time, you don't want an iPad....

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