You yourself, and your source, said apps get paused. They also can receive notifications and be woken up, like Twitter. That is not the same as multitasking, which means actually running in the background, like apps can do in Android, and can now do to some extent on the iPhone.
Audio at the bottom here
[MS rep] "...music will play in the background, video..."
[interviewer] "Third party music services?"
[MS Rep] "No, Zune music service..."
[interviewer] "So only first party."
[MS Rep] "Right."
Only Microsoft apps get to run in the background. Everything else gets paused and has to rely on notifications. Also,
“We do not allow third-party applications running on the phone to execute in the background,” said Charlie Kindel, manager of Microsoft’s Windows Phone App Platform and Developer Experience program, in a phone interview with Wired.com. “We’re poised to support it eventually, but in order to support great battery life and great end-user experience, we’re focusing on the integrated experiences first.”No FUD, the exact capabilities of WP7, which are behind the competition out of the gate.
Hey, if you want to redefine terms like multitasking to mean different things on different platforms, go ahead. The fact remains: any “multitasking” you can do on the iPhone, you can do on WP7. Your protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.
I’m done, you’re just being argumentative for argument’s sake. If you want to actually LEARN, let’s open up the WP7 SDK and we can start talking. Otherwise, go away...