Apple Lays the Original iPhone to Rest
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Now nearly three years old, Apple’s first-generation iPhone will no longer be compatible with future upgrades of the iPhone operating system, according to Steve Jobs.
Apple previewed iPhone OS 4 last week, which will deliver multitasking and other improved features to the latest iPhones and iPod Touch devices. The older iPhone 3G will run OS 4, but some features, such as multitasking, will not work due to hardware limitations, according to Apple. Noticeably missing entirely from the discussion was the original iPhone.
We suspected that the original iPhone would not run OS 4 at all, and Jobs confirms our assumption in an e-mail he sent to a customer inquiring whether Apple would continue to support the original iPhone.
Jobs’ reply is terse as usual:
Sorry, no.
Sent from my iPhone
And there you have it. Original iPhone owners began receiving a lesser iPhone experience since iPhone OS 3.0, which delivered multimedia messaging to the newer iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, but not the first-generation iPhone. And now Apple has ceased supporting the original iPhone with OS upgrades altogether. The original iPhone is officially obsolete. Three years ain’t a bad run, though.
iPhone OS 4 releases this summer for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch. iPad owners will be able to download OS 4 in fall.
A hat tip to MacStories for originally reporting this e-mail exchange.
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