i would think it would take more resources and battery power to constantly ping a server, rather than just run a low priority task in the background. think abo

i would think it would take more resources and battery power to constantly ping a server, rather than just run a low priority task in the background. think about it, you'd have to constantly ping the server, if a notification came in about a new message, then the messaging app would have to be launched, this would take more resources than just having a light background task running, that pings the server as needed. i wonder is apple will ever open up background tasking. i would think they would eventually have to, otherwise they'd be alienating a lot of functionality from the users.