Apps have been running in the background since Backgrounder was published on Cyd...

jzdziarski on Sept 4, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Loopt to work in the background on iPhone via deal...

Apps have been running in the background since Backgrounder was published on Cydia. And it doesn't cost anything to do so. Backgrounder lets me set up my TomTom, Flow Chat (IRC), and AMBER Alert to background themselves automatically... and my 3G[s] still runs plenty fast.