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Here's a fun factoid: your iPhone 3G (and mine) will totally miss out on iOS4's multi-tasking. If Apple is better than Motorola/Verizon in terms of keeping olde

by aston 16y ago

Here's a fun factoid: your iPhone 3G (and mine) will totally miss out on iOS4's multi-tasking. If Apple is better than Motorola/Verizon in terms of keeping older hardware up-to-date, it's not by much.

czhiddy 16y ago
I imagine iOS4 multitasking on a 128mb device would be horrible. The OS has grown with every release; there's probably even less memory for apps to work with in 4.0. I think Apple would rather see complaints of not supporting the 3G rather than scathing reviews of how poorly it performs. No updates for a 3 month old phone is quite a large difference from leaving a hardware-limited feature out of an update to a 2 year old device.
- megablast 16y ago
  Another interesting point, the new iPhone 4 has 512mb ram, the 3GS and iPad have 256mb. A lot of people think it was strange to put only 256mb in the iPad. Just wondering what sort of stuff the new iPhone 4 will get that the ipad will not. Hopefully it is just more memory for video related stuff, and will not hold back any new upgrades for the ipad.
  - pietrofmaggi 16y ago
    The iPad is an older project, when it started, on single task iPhoneOS 3.2, 256MB of RAM was the "right amount". Now with iOS4, simil-multitasking and a lot of video to edit, 256MB seems just a bit to tight. We have to wait and see if the release of the iOS4 for the iPad will bring come new hardware with it.
    - masklinn 16y ago
      Yeah but though I expect the iPad project was a closely guarded secret within Apple, iOS 4 likely wasn't, and the iPhone 4 was probably less of a secret than the pad. Why the iPad team didn't get any hints as to the amount of RAM to put in the thing is beyond me, especially as there are already reports of RAM-limitation issues on the pad (e.g. where iPhone 3gs Safari can keep half a dozen tabs around without reloading them all the time, iPad is apparently unable to)

by aston 16y ago

czhiddy 16y ago

I imagine iOS4 multitasking on a 128mb device would be horrible. The OS has grown with every release; there's probably even less memory for apps to work with in 4.0. I think Apple would rather see complaints of not supporting the 3G rather than scathing reviews of how poorly it performs. No updates for a 3 month old phone is quite a large difference from leaving a hardware-limited feature out of an update to a 2 year old device.

megablast 16y ago
Another interesting point, the new iPhone 4 has 512mb ram, the 3GS and iPad have 256mb. A lot of people think it was strange to put only 256mb in the iPad. Just wondering what sort of stuff the new iPhone 4 will get that the ipad will not. Hopefully it is just more memory for video related stuff, and will not hold back any new upgrades for the ipad.
- pietrofmaggi 16y ago
  The iPad is an older project, when it started, on single task iPhoneOS 3.2, 256MB of RAM was the "right amount". Now with iOS4, simil-multitasking and a lot of video to edit, 256MB seems just a bit to tight. We have to wait and see if the release of the iOS4 for the iPad will bring come new hardware with it.
  - masklinn 16y ago
    Yeah but though I expect the iPad project was a closely guarded secret within Apple, iOS 4 likely wasn't, and the iPhone 4 was probably less of a secret than the pad. Why the iPad team didn't get any hints as to the amount of RAM to put in the thing is beyond me, especially as there are already reports of RAM-limitation issues on the pad (e.g. where iPhone 3gs Safari can keep half a dozen tabs around without reloading them all the time, iPad is apparently unable to)