Apple to drop support for 1st gen iPhone

I have a 1 gen iPod touch. I used redsnow and used the 4.0 firmware and enabled all features when I did multitasking the iPod seemeb to freeze up alot so I went back to 3.1.3 jailbroken

I've got a 2G (I only paid $300 for it) and got it about 2 and a half years ago. I'm not bitter about no OS4, but there seems to be no technical reason for it since the same hardware in the 3G supports it. I imagine this has more to do with the extra $10 that AT&T gets by requiring the 3G data plan for any iphones after the 2G.

I agree that Apple doesn't owe us anything, but I don't like the implication that all 2G people must be dripping with money since we paid $600 for it. The ones with the money dropped the 2G and upgraded to each new one as they came out. The 2G owners are the penny pinchers that don't want to pay $30 for a data plan. I don't even have 3G coverage in half the places I go.

Please. Let's stop pretending the 2G is an ancient fossil. The 8GB & 16GB 2G was discontinued on June 13, 2008. That means some people are still locked in a 2 year contract with a now unsupported phone (I'm 2 months out of contract).

The apologists would be howling if their 3G was also arbitrarily abandoned, so have a little sympathy for those that paid $400-$600 for a phone that is just as capable as the 3G model.

My primary concern is no longer being able to get apps, by year's end or shortly thereafter, for a perfectly good phone. I also see little reason to downgrade to terrible battery life, and pay an additional $15/month for spotty 3G coverage.

Eh, it is several years old now

No reason for people to buy it recently and if you still have the original, it is time to upgrade

If you want to keep the original, you shouldn't be surprised that you have older software/updates

it was actually known last Thursday that OS 4 was not supported on iPhone 2G. the Apple Developer's site listed what devices were supported on the OS 4 beta download page. http://www.macdaddynews.com/?p=2296

Apple discontinued the 4gb first generation unit September 5, 2007 so it's actually been only 2 years and 7 months for some people. That's an incredibly short period to discontinue software updates for a PDA, if not the shortest. So what happens now if there's a security exploit? The original adopters are thrown to the wolves? Steve just threw us a "gamechanger" as far as I'm concerned. DOMO ARIGATO, MISTER ROBOTO. I think I'll buy an Android.

P.S. to journalists: I and many others have come to hate the overused buzzword word called gamechanger.

What the hell, there hasn't been a firmware update for my 20 GB iPod+HP in years. I'm PISSED, man.

I certainly wouldn't say we've been "had". But we all know why they aren't supporting it. For the same reason they didn't add MMS. To get people to buy a new phone. The 2G iPhone can handle multitasking just fine. A jailbroken one does, and supposedly apples solution is even more efficient.

What other smartphones get vendor upgrades after three years?

Wow, I can't believe all the apologists. Look, the 2G & 3G hardware is -exactly- the same. The 3G only adds assisted GPS and UMTS. So tell me, why can't a 2G have features that should have always been there like folders and a real mail client? Why is enabling multitasking on a 3G as simple as modifying a plist value to "true"?

Answer: Planned obsolesce. Plain and simple. I could understand dropping 2G support if the 3G was dropped too. I'm not increasing my cell bill by 20% when my area's 3G service is spotty at best.