Well, when you stretch a metaphore this far, you have to lie some.

mine does. usually while doing something like switching active apps when one is using the camera.

Sure. My older Android phone even wiped out data spontaneously (showing a message to me that it is doing so, without choice or warning).

I thought she meant that the background apps are constantly restarted - which they are.

Yes, but the nice thing about iOS 7 is that it reboots much faster.

Yup. :(