Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9
I remember watching a video awhile back that noted how Steve Jobs, being keen on eastern religions, brought Zen principals into his surrounding environment.  In that particular case, they showed how his home was very spartan, eliciting an expression of focus and elimination of distractions from the task at hand.  The point they were making was that this showed through his products.  On the iPad, you can only do one thing at a time.  You have to focus on that one thing, and are not able to be bothered by distractions such as other windows/programs.<p>Of course, having multiple apps open on the earlier iPads would have been quite challenging anyway, so this was either a happy coincidence or an excuse/interpretation made after the fact.  But the idea was cool none the less.  It made me think about how distracting and unfocused work on a normal desktop can feel like compared to an iPad.  The downside, of course, is that while this inability to have multiple things open side-by-side is fine for casual usage and entertainment, it makes a lot of tasks related to creation and work quite difficult.<p>So it will be a relief to finally have this feature on iOS.  It certainly was a pain point.  But that concept of focusing on a single task without distractions is still something worth remembering.