Poll: Multitasking on mobile devices – Are Apple engineers lazy, brilliant, or both?

As my company is now getting interest in how our projects display on the Apple mobile devices, I’m becoming more aware of the technical limitations.  And now that we know the Apple iPad will be using the same OS, the concernwe have is the lack of multitasking.  From what we’ve seen, only certain (read: Apple-developed) applications and services are allowed to run in the background.

From a user experience perspective, I can understand why the choice would seem make sense – isolate applications to running only in the foreground, and you reduce the risks of poor performance, memory conflicts and good ‘ol crash.

But seeing that Windows Mobile and Google Android do allow multitasking, is Apple being lazy in not addressing the potential issues head-on, or brilliant in assuming that users won’t really care?