Everywhere you look these days you read about iPhone users screaming for multitasking. Here’s one counter opinion.

Yesterday I was trying to shoot off a quick text message. I was happily typing away on my iPhone 3G when the keyboard became unresponsive. You know what I’m talking about — type along and nothing appears, no comforting click, click, click of the keys. Then a familiar ‘vling!’ of the You’ve Got Mail variety, then several words of my typing spill forth.

That’s multitasking on the iPhone and I don’t like it.

When I’m actively doing something, anything, on my iPhone I want it to be all about me. When I’m done, or if I’m dull and slow and the wee CPU can get some work done without my even knowing, fine.

Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t use or care about Pandora. I also don’t believe in human multitasking, so having just a single app open that I’m focused on and actively engaged with suits me just fine.

I just hope with whatever iPhone 4.0 brings us that my iPhone doesn’t forget about me and spend all it’s time on background tasks leaving my keyboard slow and chunky. It would really ruin the user experience, which should be all about me.

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