Windowed Apps Are the Future of Smartphones

Something very interesting is happening over on Android. After years of jumping between apps like pages in a book, we’re starting to see the emergence of software that allows us to work with multiple apps simultaneously – not just apps running concurrently in the background, but actually sharing screen real estate – and more importantly, software that does so well. Different parties have engineered different systems for giving our phones this ability, and it still remains to be seen what will be the “best” way to do things, but regardless of the details, I’m ...

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