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One more aspect to consider: iOS 7 is more resource-intensive than iOS 6. The amount of RAM on a device determines how often iOS will kill Marvin while Marvin is in background. If you have iPad 2 and the original iPad mini, neither of the two devices has sufficient RAM to run iOS 7 as smoothly as the new iPad Air and the mini Retina. Unless the 64-bit infrastructure interferes in unintended ways, Marvin should be restarting a lot less frequently on iPad Air or Retina mini, because those devices have at least twice the amount of RAM compared to old-generation iPads.
If at least the proposed time-out is introduced, which would mean that Marvin's time-keeping would no longer require for Marvin to be in the foreground, then at least Marvin's time-keeping data won't be affected when iOS kills Marvin while Marvin is in background. Upon the next Marvin launch, Marvin would simply resume with the timer where it left off at the moment when it was killed by iOS.
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