If you have ever used an Android device, you have probably noticed it works quite differently than many other operating systems. For example, you can be using an app, say you're checking what people are doing on Facebook. Then you get an e-mail notification and you tap the e-mail icon to read it. Mid-way through reading the e-mail you might get a Twitter notification, and because you're waiting on important news from someone you follow, you interrupt your e-mail reading and change apps to Twitter, with one touch.
After reading the tweet, you fancy a game of Angry Birds, but mid-way through the first daring fling you suddenly remember that Facebook post. So you quit Angry Birds and tap the Facebook icon.
Then you resume Facebook, probably at the same point you left it. You could have resumed reading the e-mail, decided to reply to the tweet, or started an entirely new app.
All this backwards and forwards takes quite a lot of management on the...