Lots of very good news yesterday, and a ton of great things to look forward to in that 2.0 software update. But … here’s a potentially very bad thing 
spotted by John Gruber in the SDK:
Only one iPhone application can run at a time, and third-party applications never run in the background. This means that when users switch to another application, answer the phone, or check their email, the application they were using quits. It’s important to make sure that users do not experience any negative effects because of this reality. In other words, users should not feel that leaving your iPhone application and returning to it later is any more difficult than switching among applications on a computer.
If 3rd party apps are able to ‘remember’ their state, and return to where you were when you switch away from them, not a very big deal. If they don’t then OUCH and double-ouch. We’d be right on par with the glorious no-mulitasking Palm OS. Please no.
TechCrunch has a good rundown of how this would severely cripple a lot of location-based and other popular types of app as well – IM clients being just one good example.
Hope someone clears this one up quick …
Via: Phone Different
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