Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-9-2009

[andrewducker]

• Nokia shipped more than double Apple's smartphones last year.
  RIM in second place, Apple in third.
  (tags: apple nokia phones)
• Tough love is good for children
  It found that children from the richest backgrounds were more than twice as likely to develop the key characteristics compared to those with the poorest origins.
  
  Additionally, children whose parents were married were twice as likely to show such traits than children from lone parent or step-parented families, the report said.
  
  But it added that when parental style and confidence were factored in, the difference in child character development between richer and poorer families disappeared.
  (tags: psychology bbc children)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Just remembered the other thing Apple doesn't do - background apps.

Having to relaunch an app because I wanted to check my email would annoy the hell out of me.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

That is annoying.

Apple's argument is this tradeoff is why the iPhone gets excellent battery life.

[andrewducker]

I can understand that argument. But I'd rather have them say "If you run multiple apps the battery life will drop" or even pop up a "Background app X is sucking the battery dry, kill it?" than mandate that I can't run them.