iPhone 3G excluded from AirPlay support

I'm surprised the 3G even gets 4.2, personally.

just wondering if the zeppelin speakers shown in the picture have any sort of airplay compatibility. if not how would i hook them up to a network?

Holding back features for future sales, updates to updates, promised features that are then removed, lack of support on old hardware and software. Oh the memories; sounds like our old Microsoft overloads during their hay-days of the 90s and early 2000s. I for one welcome our new Apple overlords and await a future when we talk about Apple the way we now talk about Microsoft (which is already happening) while some new company (maybe Google?) will become the new hipster with the "better" operating system, and cooler new products and a next "Joe-smoe Jobs" becomes the next face of innovation. The circle of life continues.

Does that include 2nd Gen, iPod touches? AKA 3rd Gen 8GB iPod touches?

THe reason Apple probabbly still supports the iPhone 3G is because they were still selling them as of May of this year.

iPhone 3G doesn't have h.264 or AAC encoding hardware. Best it would be able to do is streaming of preencoded content. Perhaps Apple decided that distinction is too difficult to communicate to users and decided to disable AirPlay entirely

Apple got burned promising too much for the 3G with iOS 4.0, now it's EOL time.

Can you stream video audio to an Airport Express? I can do it with Airfoil but it'd be nice if it was built into iTunes.

It's no surprise that the 3G is LIMITED. It's OLD hardware. I wish people would stop treating it like it's supposed to be at the same level as the 3GS and 4. Jesus.