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Originally Posted by Matt D
I always thought it was more due to "YOU MUST OBEY APPLE!" 
They allow their own apps (iPod, Phone, Email, Messages, Safari) to run in the background... |
Yes but that's a handful, no more than any other phone really. Imagine 10/15 applications running in the background. Apple have the policy of not trusting their users not to do stupid things and therefore prevent applications from running in the background at all.