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>You should be thankful you don't have to care about RAM usage anymore

Until such time as the machine cares about it in such a way that doesn't degrade performance (multiple seconds to launch apps vs tenths of second post killing some extras), I will continue to stay on top of RAM usage.

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I see less of this on ios devices, but that may be because I keep up–to-date with newer hardware. I guess devs are targeting the older devices that are still in use -- together with the restricted multitasking on ios, this probably side-steps most memory problems.

(Except for the odd memory hog that occasionally gets terminated while in use, like the Facebook app).

the ipad handles this without slowing down...

isn't that due to just showing a splash screen and loading the app in the background? I'm sure I read it somewhere. Anyway it is a smart way to make hardware feel faster and more responsive, I did the same when developing an embedded touchscreen.

No, more due to a agressive suspending of background processes. A app cant run in the background if it's not doing something that absolutely need to run in the background.

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