Apple iPhone SDK Beta 4 (allowing background apps?)

Good, it would be really nice if the AIM app would work properly instead of logging off every time you switch apps.

I cannot even imagine background apps aren't coming.

I could imagine that the new iphones have more RAM then the old ones, and that background apps may be limited on iPhone 1.0. I could imagine them as a killer feature that would help get people to upgrade their 1.x iPhones to 2.0 version.

But there is no way that iPhone background apps don't happen eventually. Apple is smarter then that.