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Of course Apple could enable AppStore apps to run in the background. They made the right decision in limiting apps to one at a time. The phone has limited resources and allowing multiple apps to run would severely effect the user experience. But its probably just Apple on a power trip (read: being evil).

I don’t think it was the right choice. They shouldn’t automatically enable all apps to, but rather give users the choice. There are lots of circumstances where being able to run a few apps in the background would be incredibly useful.

On top of the IM example given, I’d love to be able to let Pandora run over apps much like the iPod does. Or use location based services in the background like RunKeeper.

Doesn’t the mail application run in the background? I would assume somone with a jailbroken phone could add this functionality to any app.

Personally, I’d like to see someone deliver a stable version of the NY Times app.

good feature.

i don’t think that is a technical proble: apple doesn’t want to run apps in the background. and thats a right decision: if you tried to call with a wm6-phone you will admire this “limitation”

I wish this feature is available from Apple. This is very useful for applications like “Clip2Mobile”

There is an unpublished method, carried over from the Mac, where you can answer “no” to the question “can this app quit now?”, but it’s unpublished for a reason, and I’m sure Apple wouldn’t be too happy if devs tried to use it.

There are other methods like this, which can allow you to run in the background. It’s just a matter of Apple allowing them onto AppStore.

holy S… That device sucks. It is so poor design that these apps would dry out battery even faster. It is funney that nokia out of the box is running 100 processes in the background and new apps can do this also. And still the battery will hold 2days.

unfortunately you can do a shit with nokia, so who cares how many processes how long it can handle.

does the phone strong enough to hold those applications?

Apple hates the way Windows Mobile handles background processing because people go crazy opening stuff and it ends up maxing out RAM and wasting CPU usage.

I love the way Backgrounder’s interface works - it’s so simple that my mom could understand the concept. Apple may want to consider this interface in the future, but they’re going to need to include:

- Backgrounder’s interface
- a process/activity monitor (what’s running, kill it, goto it)
- most important: MORE RAM

The iPhone only has 128MB RAM to work with which is causing Backgrounder to only keep open a couple apps at a time. (I’ve maxed out at 5.) Once you max out, each time you open a new app, because the iPhone can’t allocate memory, it causes one of the backgrounded processes to crash.

A lot of persons have been waiting for stuff like this that can run multiple apps on their iPhone