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by pyre 5161 days ago

  > People were fine with the UI in Windows 3.1
You do realize that Windows 3.1 didn't have mutitasking, right?
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Neither did iOS, but my point was the user interface, not tasking/processing.
iOS has always had multi-tasking. That only one app was allowed to be displayed at a time is separate from whether or not it was a multi-tasking OS.
It did have multitasking. It was not preemptive.