Comms problems or not, Ben's review regarding the software says a lot really. As usual for BBQ Fanatics it was a review based on listing facts rather than based on conjecture and opinion and the explanation of the software made it look less than impressive. It's a shame because it's quite a cool idea but there's no excuse for producing poor software.
Background operation has been available since the launch of IOS4 almost a year ago, the fact that something so essential to this kind of software has not been introduced in nearly a year smacks of a hacked house of cards bit of code that can't be updated without significant rework.