I didn't know Apple was going to open up the file system for the iPad. That's great! Hopefully this change will be applied to other iPhone OS devices, since using file sharing apps for this purpose is a clumsy workaround. I can understand that a lot of people aren't very good at dealing with a file system, but some us would find it really helpful at times.
I think the multitasking restriction has more to do with user experience than with security. All third-party software is vetted by Apple, after all. The problem is that too many people do a lousy job of managing multiple program. If a background process kills performance in the foreground app or sucks up battery life, people are going to blame Apple rather than their own inability to manage the phone's limited resources.
I understand that some other smartphones use an app that the user can run to kill background processes. I sincerely hope that Apple's solution is more elegant than that, because that just won't work for the mass market.
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