Very cool. There are only three things that I really miss from my N95 now that I have an iPhone:
- Background Applications
- Copy/Paste
- Access to the filesystem
(Though, of course, jailbreaking solves all three of those issues.) 
Anyway, here’s the news on #1 from CNET News:
MacRumors has a report out today saying they’ve “heard” that Apple is thinking about dropping its objection to having iPhone applications run in the background at some point in the future. If you’ll recall, Apple announced last June that iPhone users wouldn’t be able to run more than one application at the same time in order to preserve battery life and performance, which surprised developers used to creating smartphone applications for other platforms with that capability intact.
Instead, Apple’s Scott Forstall announced plans for “a far better solution;” a push-notification service that would route notifications from one application to another over Apple-hosted application servers. This was supposed to allow developers to create an instant-messaging application, for example, that could interrupt your game of Bejeweled with an IM window.
(via CNET News)
[...] Background processing coming with iPhone 3.0 [...]
Nice. Apple needs to take a clue. People jailbreak because they want more functions. Give them more functions.