Multitasking/ Recent Apps still limited to 7 ?

[a5cent]

That does not seem plausible from the current behavior. Once you try it yourself you will feel the weirdness of it.

Can you elaborate? What else besides memory management are you imagining could factor into this?

I have no idea what you're talking about or alluding to. It sounds like you think you can derive facts about WP's memory management by looking at WP's task switcher, which is obviously ridiculous, but that's how I understand what you are saying.

 

[AkArora]

Can you elaborate? What else besides memory management are you imagining could factor into this?

I have no idea what you're talking about or alluding to. It sounds like you think you can derive facts about WP's memory management by looking at WP's task switcher, which is obviously ridiculous, but that's how I understand what you are saying.

And it is equally ridiculous that you conclude that what you are saying (memory management) is the only reason behind it and it cannot be an anomaly whatsoever, kudos.

If you have tried, which you clearly haven't opening a set of 7 apps, Skype not being the recent most app. Opening Tubecast drops Skype, maybe largest memory footprint, fair enough.

Same apps, but Skype is the recent most app, this time opening Tubecast is not dropped (Apps like NextGen Reader, Taskcrunch, Aerize).

 

[a5cent]

And it is equally ridiculous that you conclude that what you are saying (memory management) is the only reason behind it and it cannot be an anomaly whatsoever, kudos.

I think you are getting all huffy and puffy over a mere misunderstanding.

My point is that the closing of apps is related to nothing else but memory management. End of story. It sounds to me like you are suggesting otherwise. It's certainly unrelated to screen size or any of the other things previously mentioned. That is my main point.

Exactly which app is closed under what circumstances is a different issue. Although I understand how WP approaches memory management conceptually, I already admitted to not fully understanding the details of how WP decides specifically which app to close, so I can't rule out that what you're observing is unintended behavior.

 

[a5cent]

If you have tried, which you clearly haven't opening a set of 7 apps, Skype not being the recent most app. Opening Tubecast drops Skype, maybe largest memory footprint, fair enough.

Same apps, but Skype is the recent most app, this time opening Tubecast is not dropped (Apps like NextGen Reader, Taskcrunch, Aerize).

Skype definitely has a large memory footprint. Keeping the VOIP stack in memory was a big issue for MS on 512MB devices.

For some reason you think the above scenario you described is weird, but I don't see why. It's in fact exactly what I would expect. Why? Because how recently an app was opened also factors into the decision of which app to drop. If Skype is one of the most recently opened apps, the OS will drop other apps first as it's reasonable to assume you'll still want to use Skype. If however Skype was not one of the most recently opened apps, it will be very high up on the list of apps to drop, due to its relatively high memory consumption.

As I understand it, that's exactly what you observed.