Palm was founded by Apple employees who worked on the Newton.
Not exactly true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm,_Inc.
They worked on the first Palm device at the same time the Newton came to market, but they didn't work on the Newton, then leave to go found Palm at all.
History revisionist ahoy!
Please name us one single phone that the original iPhone is a direct copy of....
You missed my post from 6 pages back, but the truth is, there were many devices that did what the iPhone does and doesn't do now. One of the last PDAs released by Palm was the Palm TX which was essentially a 4" widescreen PDA with no phone features, but all the technology and more of the first iPhone.
Apple did two things: 1.) beat Palm to market with a device that combined the best of the iPod, PDA, and phone. 2.) (the greatest of all) developed an OS to control all of that tech in one shell.
That's all. The form, design, concept, touchscreen etc. were already in existence in many devices that did many things. Even the form factor existed for phones before the iPhone:
Circa 2005
iOS doesn't suck in terms of true multitasking because it doesn't use "true" multitasking. iOS excels at using a form of multitasking that is appropriate for the hardware it is running on.
Well, let's leave the marketing hype out of it. If an underpowered Palm Pre running at 867MHz can do true multitasking what's stopping the iPhone from doing it?
We could explain it away like Microsoft does with it's issues, or we can just cut to the facts: Apple doesn't program it that way because the OS can't handle it.
Hardware is hardware, all Apple users should know that the software is the key when it comes down to usability. There's no multitasking in OS because the OS wasn't built for it from the start, and it'll take a some serious changes to get it to do so.