Apr 12
Report: End of the Road for Original iPhone OS Updates
Posted in: Apple, iPhone, operating system, Smartphones, Today's Chili
This could be bad news for owners of the original iPhone: Steve Jobs told an inquiring customer over e-mail that the first-gen iPhone (the EDGE-only model with the aluminum back) will not be compatible with iPhone OS 4, Engadget reports.
There’s no official comment from Apple on this yet. If true, that means this will be the first time since the launch of the original iPhone in 2007 that a coming OS update won’t be compatible with earlier hardware. Three years sounds a bit short to dead-end a product when considered in isolation.
But then again, given that you can buy a brand new phone right this moment that can’t get an update to the next version of the OS, that has already been announced, it’s not so bad.
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