Dear Leader announced the next version of the iPhone operating system last week. Amongst its more notable features was the inclusion of multitasking, or at least a crippled version of it. Above is El Jobso with a screenshot of what it looks like.

According to Engadget, “It’s not a ‘true’ multitasking system…You just double click the home button and see a list of your apps, and you can just tap to switch between apps.”

Hmmm… this is all sounding (and looking) very familiar…

A couple of months ago I mocked up the above screenshot and described how Apple could fake multitasking:

“What if Apple enabled a three finger downward swipe which would pull up a dock of your four (or in the case of the iPad, six) most recently used apps. Those apps aren’t open – they’re just the ones you used most recently.”

Eerily close to the way they’re really implementing multitasking? Yes.

Was Apple working on this months before I posted it? Maybe.

Do I really think Steve Jobs reads my blog? Absolutely I do.

Hi Steve.

Top image courtesy of Engadget, obviously.