happydolphin on 02 May 2012
If I'm not mistaken google made a modern-day browser in nearly a year. It has the basic feature of background downloads. What reason for not multi-tasking is unclear, but I would bet strongly that it is a design contraint (not wanting to reserve too many resources for the OS) than money.
We might never know, but I wouldn't argue it's a matter of money, but a matter of OS design architecture.
