[astine]

I think that it depends on the state that you are losing. All the state worth keeping on my phone is saved to disk (sd card actually,) so it wouldn't matter if it were rebooted. The only problem would be that I wouldn't be able to use it while it was booting.

[yoden]

Yep, android has always been similar to how iOS 4 works. To do multitasking on a mobile right, you need to save state when you get backgrounded anyway... so rebooting the phone basically loses you nothing.

That being said, the only time I reboot my phone is when Pandora hangs itself into an unrecoverable state (100% pandora's fault). Still better than the iOS pandora player though.