User experience
Multi-tasking is cognitively exhausting — when we do it by choice, being asked to stop can come as a welcome change. Clay Shirky, in a very thoughtful piece, explaining why he asked his students to put their laptops away…
Psychology
Inbox Zero does not mean how much e-mail’s in your inbox. It’s how much of your brain is in your inbox when you don’t want it to be Merlin Mann, inventor of Inbox Zero, quoted in the Confessions of an inbox obsessive (Wayback Machine)
Multi-tasking
We are all better off going with the system put in place by the creators of the system chpwn, creator of the popular iPhone tweak ProSwitcher, On Multitasking
Multi-tasking
Sometimes they actually enhance the device. Mostly, though, they’re like a third nipple. Good for conversation, but functionally useless. Andy Ihnatko’s on hardware features, iPad and Multitasking (Wayback Machine)
Apple
What the user gets instead, is increased battery life, sustained performance, and reduced confusion. Smoking Apples on (the supposed lack of) multi-tasking on the iPad (Wayback Machine)
User experience
I find it hard to believe that the loss of background processing isn’t a price worth paying to have a computer that isn’t frightening anymore. Fraser Speirs, explaining why reactions to the iPad are Future Shock