Indeed, check out his dig at multitasking on Android and praise of iOS multitasking, even though Apple's implementation seems to be essentially identical.
It's not identical, Android lets you do a lot more in the background than iOS 4.0 does. That's the crux of my part about battery life... because it lets apps do anything in the background it will drain your battery. Apple didn't want to give developers that ability because they were concerned about regular users' iPhone batteries draining.
- 37Signals is great, they do simple! - anecdote - Apple is great, they do simple!
I hope whatever software this guy does has less opinion and more substance.