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		jrk on Feb 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RIP Pandora, Kindle on the iPhone They aren't as essential for desktop browsers (now), since the relative resource constraints on a given tab are so much smaller, but just as relevant as "desktop" runtimes scale down in power/up in efficiency demands, and as the apps run within them scale up in resource demands. Just look to how much RAM your 25 browser tabs burn, and how warm a single tab with Flash ads can keep your MacBook Air.

Tichy on Feb 16, 2011 [–]

Sure, but Background tasks wouldn't alleviate the problem, I think? The tasks would still have to be coded in a "nice" way.

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