Boom: iPhone Gets Multitasking, at Last

Right at the start of Apple's iPhone 4.0 event, Steve Jobs revealed the "boom!" many iPhone lovers had been waiting for--multitasking.

Jobs laughed off the several years of anti-Apple criticism centering on multitasking by noting that while Apple wasn't "the first to this party," it's definitely "going to be the best." The system works pretty much how you would expect: That home button gets another function--a double click now activates the multitasking system. This means it doesn't work...