I keep seeing people getting their underwear in a twist over the multi-tasking thing, but, really, what apps do you feel that MUST be left to run in the background?
Let me posit another scenario: What if the apps that you install on your phone are able to start up lightning-quick so that they appear to have been running all along? And what if your app was to register a push notification handler so that the user can be notified of an event that requires their attention, activating the previously dormant app in a few tenths of a second?
I still haven't heard one good example of an app that must continue to run in the background, other than email/sms/social/music.
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