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The management side- I have to have a Task Killer app running in the background to kill off all the random apps that wind up going. The problem on Android, to me, is more of a failure in caring about UI than a failure of technology- which is also my problem with the platform as a whole.


I have to have a Task Killer app running in the background to kill off all the random apps that wind up going

No, you don't. Just because an app shows up in a process list doesn't mean it's consuming resources. (Other than memory, and background processes are automatically killed as needed to free up RAM).





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