Do you leave apps running in the background ?

[Dangerous Theory]

You offend every single real OCD sufferer with comments like this

Grow up

Oh my god, LOL! He wasn't implying that people with an obsessive compulsive disorder hear voices in their head.


Also, people seriously are using the term too much and almost definitely incorrectly here on these forums. People with OCD very often know that they have it, as it's an anxiety disorder, and it's usually things a lot more serious than "My screen doesn't look even".

 

[donnaw]

I close some of mine out. 1). Because I use an ewallet a lot and want it closed completely so nobody who happens to pick up my iPad can get in it. 2). After 5.0 my iPad 2 crashed a lot from low memory instances. 5.1 fixed some of it and my new iPad hasn't had the issue.

But mostly I do it because I like to use gestures to swipe through the open apps and don't like swiping through every app I have on my iPad. So I close out those that I'm really done with and leave those that I actually use a lot. I think it saves my Home button (which was getting flaky on my iPad 2).

 

[BigButa]

Why do people just believe everything they are told by others (including Apple)? It's not like it is hard to test to see if, indeed, having tons of applications open at once does degrade performance. For me, with the iPad 1, performance did, beyond a shadow of a doubt, suffer when lots of apps were open. Switching between them took longer, and they crashed more often.

But that was with 256MB of RAM. With the 1 GB on the new iPad, I don't think I have encountered serious issues with memory yet.

 

[William.Mantle]

Apparently, you need to educate yourself about OCD. A person with OCD doesn't hear voices. If you're going to get all indignant, you should at least defend the right illness.

Thats exactly why i made this statement?!

What is wrong with you? Did you read the full thread?

Please take the time to read a full thread before posting.

Otherwise you just come across as a silly keyboard commando that needs to grow up.

 

[richpjr]

Geez, people are really taking this OCD thing to a new level. I don't think anyone is intentionally insulting people with OCD. I know a lot of people that throw that term around with actually meaning the person they say it to really has it. This forum sure is touchy since the iPad 3 came out...

 

[space dog]

But would they really know about it? An obsessive behavior to most people with OCD seems perfectly normal. It's everyone else who doesn't understand.

At least that's what the voices tell me.

Doesn't sound like you've experienced it either. No, to most with it they know it's unfortunately irrational, not perfectly normal. That's part of the problem and why it's frustrating, knowing something's irrational but not being able to ignore the irrationality