At first this seemed like a small, inadequate look at running applications, but we soon found that holding the PlayStation button brought up a more comprehensive cascade of tabbed items, naming each application explicitly.

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You and thousands of others can access that same application simultaneously because each of you is looking at a different item, out of potentially millions of items.

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