Security firm warns lack of iOS 4.3 update leaves iPhone 3G vulnerable

I knew it was only a matter of time before people complained about the iPhone 3G not being part of the iOS 4.3 update...

Look the bottom line is... if you updated your iPhone 3G from 3.1.3 then you are an idiot. Enjoy your molasses phone. Those who didn't upgrade, you can laugh at those that did.

Bye.

sounds like a great way for apple to force all of us to buy their newest product. We all know once you go Mac you never go back...

They actually did it once with iOS 3.1.3. The PDF exploit has never been fixed for first-generation device owners. (I mean there is no 3.1.4 that addresses this issue)

Some of you seem to be forgetting that right now, Apple is providing the BEST support for existing, already sold cell phones in the market, bar NONE.

Nobody else provides updates for phones that were last sold almost a year ago. Features phones typically get ZERO updates ever, even if the manufacturer updates the firmware to fix bugs during the manufacturing of the phone. Smartphones from all the major manufacturers also typically get ZERO or ONE update EVER. If you graphed number of updates for a phone by model, you would see a really large hump at 0, going down at 1, then dropping to maybe 5 until you get past 7, where Apple has all their phones [well, except for the iPhone 4].

Could Apple do better? Sure. But the rest of market isn't even bothering to try to approach Apple's level of support for their existing customer base.

Apple does not have to release 4.3 to fix this issue. Apple could instead release an upgrade to 4.2.x.

I've got a hand-me-down 3G, which I recently downgraded from 4.2 to 3.1 because of the awful performance problems. I really don't want to upgrade now (both because of the new iPhones being released this summer and because I'm going to move overseas next year and don't want to be in the middle of a contract). So I was hoping to limp along with my older phone and OS.

But if they won't release updates for the older hardware, and there are exploits in the wild, then I'll have to upgrade. But between the poor support for older phones and the money grab with in-app purchases, it'll probably be an Android phone if I have to upgrade now.

I think 4.3 lets your set how many times a receptive alert goes off for text messages, not sure about voicemails.

I for one though, would hate having it alert me more than once per missed call, but to each their own.

I'm still on 3.1.3 - never went to 4.x after reading all the horror stories. Too bad Apple doesn't provide some sort of light updates. My phone is two years old and to be honest, I don't think that is old.

Sure, there's a cycle of new products, but two years is nothing. Why should mobile phones be the only product you forcibly have to upgrade after such a short period?

My other half is still on an iPhone 3g running 4.2 and given the sheer number of problems and speed issues with that I'd hate to it upgraded to 4.3. That'd be like upgrading a granny's walking stick to roller blades.