That title is very misleading. Finding a way to get location from sources other than the phone when the app isn't running is far from "Sneaking Background Multitasking."
"and the iPhone takes no hit to its battery life as it's all running in the cloud."<p>Um, what does that even mean? Does "cloud" just mean "a network" now?
It seems to me that, right now, location polling is really the major reason people request background processing. If Apple would put a feature into the settings that let the user regularly push their location to <i>Apple</i>, and then a section in the Notifications settings for whether each app could access that location once pushed, a large swath of complaints would be eliminated at once, and the battery life would only have to be spent in one place, instead of being hacked in by each app that you want to track you.
I have a few questions:<p>* How the F does this work?<p>* Is AT&T involved?<p>* Is any of this data admissible in a court of law?<p>* Why would you want to broadcast your location to a list of people constantly 24x7 - outside of some kind of job requirement?