Except that the iPhone does run Apple apps in the back ground. The OS has a number of things running to be able to receive a call, keep it touch with the tower, update the battery icon, the signal bars, etc.
Even though 3rd party apps can't run in the back ground, the iPhone is running several tasks all the time. Its just those task were all written by apple.
I haven't seen the N900, so I can't speak to the speed difference.
Its hard to tell an app is crap until you use it. "Can't judge a book by its cover." Its much more true that you can't judge software by what marketing told you.
I would have to carefully evaluate each app one at a time never loading or running more than 1 per day, to be able to figure out which one was written by an idiot.
SMS costs a fortune in the US. I had it disabled.
But if they do allow multitasking, I hope Apple becomes MORE restrictive on what they let on the App store. I don't want crap apps sucking my battery down.
As a developer concerned with power usage I would like more access to tell the OS things like how often I need a GPS location update. You can tell the API to update your app when you have moved x distance, but that implies the OS is watching movement constantly and only updates you every so often. I'd also like to shut down such resources when on a screen that doesn't need them, if I can quickly bring them back up.
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