nospam

In article <bpydncOMz_TNTuPRnZ2dnUVZ_gqdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Allistar
<me@hiddenaddress.com> wrote:

> >> it appears on Cydia. I was thinking how annoying it is to keep closing
> >> down all the open "links" on the multitasking bar one by one. Just
> >> popped up an app that closes them all at once with one push of my
> >> choice. Nothing major, but one more reason I'm happy being jailbroken.
> >
> > I don't bother to close them; don't see the need.
>
> I would have expected a running app to be automatically closed after a
> certain amount of time of not being used (say, 5 minutes?) What's the logic
> in leaving them open (or at least, having them appear in the running tasks
> list)?

apps are suspended, so it doesn't matter if it's 5 minutes or 5 days.
they are not running, except for specific types of apps such as
background audio or gps navigation.

the list is not running tasks, it's recently used apps. the user might
want to go back to an app they used the day or week before, and since
it's suspended, it instantly resumes. if it had been shut down, it
would need to relaunch, which is slower.