[hamedh]

You can write a audio, GPS, VOIP, etc app that does more than just do audio, GPS, VOIP, etc in the background. For example, you may think the app is only playing audio or doing GPS updates, but it can be badly-written and updating UI and/or other intense stuff. Now granted, iOS will still kill those apps if they start taking up too much memory/resources while in the background.

But I think the article is accurate, you shouldn't ever have to manage apps. iOS is night and day compared to Android's task management (where iOS is much better for users).