Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
Apple may be right that the benefits of multitasking do not outweigh its costs at this point, and the company will address at least some of the needs that have traditionally been met with background apps via its reworked push service and in-app e-mail due to launch this summer. However, the rationale presented at the iPhone OS 3.0 event this week against background apps is an incomplete argument at best.First, let's turn back to when Apple first announced that the iPhone would not support backgrou
