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    There's a lot of damage someone can do on your Amazon account in a half hour. Let's say you leave your Fire at an airport and you're stuck on a plane for the next six hours. Congratulations! In that time, you just bought a dozen movies, ten albums and a boat!

    I recently had someone tell me about how great their Kindle Fire was and how "it does everything" my iPad does and cost so much less. Even more recently I got a call from the same someone asking me if I knew why their Fire wasn't turning on, even though they'd charged it all night. I figured out that it needed to be

    Well, I don't want to argue with you forever about this, but that's kind of an oversimplification. Snapseed allows a lot of granularity in areas that aren't really "filters". Saturation, brightness, white balance, contrast, and a whole lot more can be adjusted with a lot of precision. There aren't any preset filters

    Sssshhhhhh. No facts needed/wanted here. It's far more captivating to make it sound like a best selling book misrepresents the facts than if the story is basically the same but incomplete because it only took up a small portion of a greater work.

    Waaaay more than a filter app. Way more.

    I would love for it to be real.

    If it fits the 4 with a case, I'm pretty sure it would fit most iPhones. Just don't go buying it on my word alone. You can submit the question on the Kickstarter page. I'd bet you'd get an answer.

    Agreed. I have a Griffen dock that is also a USB hub, SD card reader, and CF reader that I've been using for quite some time, but I can't stand that it's so light. I had to velcro tape it down for one handed removal, and that's a less than elegant solution.

    Yeah, that was the first Kickstarter I ever backed. Really a very nice product, too.

    I don't see that. Is it a Flash thing? I don't have Flash installed.

    What you did there... I see it. ;)

    Hahahaha-Hearted. Thank you for that. I do hope, for your sake, that Mrs. Loki13 only has the gardener unitasking outside of the house.

    It conflicts with an existing use for a home button hold. He explained it in his post. "holding HOME brings up Siri". It's right there in the first and only sentence. Wedged between "Seems a little dated now that" and "- tough to say what would work better though."

    The other problem with holding down home is that you make multitasking a two-handed effort as opposed to a the one-handed effort it is now.

    Two finger swipes are used for scrolling independently scrolling portions of web pages, like the right hand side of Gawker websites. There are also any number of apps that use two finger swipes for any number of other tasks, including drawing two lines simultaneously in almost any sketching application.

    Have you come from an alternate universe where the iPhone is still only on a single carrier in the US and people actively browse and play games simultaneously on a screen that fits in your pocket (on any OS)? If so, welcome to our reality. You'll find things are different here.

    Thank you. That's exactly how I feel about it. The double tap and swipe is a great one-handed method of interaction. Don't fix what isn't broken.

    Well, first of all, you don't "hold" the home button down. It's a double tap of the home button. There is no holding involved. The double tap (no hold) is what makes multiple application management a one-handed process on iOS devices.

    Agreed. The reason I like the multitasking as is is that it can all be done with one hand. Also, holding the home button for multitasking conflicts with holding it down for Siri.

    I've never felt like the current implementation of multitasking was clunky, personally. I think it's battery efficient, and makes sense on a device who's screen doesn't really seem fit for having multiple apps running on-screen. That said, I'd be happy to see an improvement if they think they have one.