If you look at the image above you will realize that something is missing, yes, indeed, no iOS 4.3 for iPhone 3G or iPod Touch 2G. It appears that Apple will not update its first internationally sold iPhone with future firmwares.
Personally it seems to me an insult to all perfectly valid iPhone usersThere will be users who bought their iPhone 3G just over a year ago and suddenly they may find that Apple leaves it aside. I have friends and family with an iPhone 3G and it works perfectly, it is not as fast as an iPhone 4 (obviously), but they prefer it to the majority of mobiles on the market; I suppose that the same thing will happen to many of you.
we hope that when the final version appears the iPhone 3G is included in the update, and there is simply no beta for it right now because there are few improvements and they have thought that it is not worth it.
Example of the planned obsolescence shown by this very interesting documentary that La2 issued last Sunday: http://www.rtve.es/television/documentales/comprar-tirar-comprar/
That a terminal is not updated any more does not mean that it stops being more than functional, the iPhone 3G as it is is doing well, it can no longer hold. Not forgetting that Apple obviously wants us all to update to the latest model as often as possible ...
It is something that has to happen sooner or later (the later the better) because the difference at the hardware level with the latest model is always growing ...
If a little more than someone bought an iPhone 3G, they knew they were risking it (they offered it to me several times very cheap and taking this into account it did not seem like a good option), since the 3GS is on the market ... if you buy a terminal (whatever the brand and operating system) that is more than a year old ... you can't want to follow the last one 2 years later ...
Let's see if they at least continue to take it to the border with iOS 5.
Ahy to keep in mind that the hardware reaches its limit at any time. Possibly the memory of the 3G does not give for more extras than if it had the 4.3.
We have to be happy that at least Apple does update its terminals. Look at Nokia, this company can be called that. It forgets its devices after a few months. They don't care if they are the latest models or flagship and the same thing happens. with HTC.
The latter is incredible. A few months ago I bought a brand new HTC HD2 with the hope that as announced in its day, it could carry WP7. If it does not get to be by the whole group of cooks that are still behind this terminal Today I would be eating the snot that they will get this update.
So I think we can be happy ... that 3G is already a few years old.
Well, I was not psychologically prepared for this news 😛
I knew that sooner or later I would stay with my iPhone 3g stuck in some version, but honestly, I thought that it would reach 4.5 or even 5. I will continue with my 3G for longer, since it is still going quite well for the use that you I give, although I know it could be better, but it is enough for me as it is.
Apple dictates how much time is worth what you have left a pasta buying it a thousand years ago.
Taking into account that other mobiles do not have updates, it is not that bad either. But yeah, I too would lose confidence in Apple a bit. That their products are not cheap enough to update you. And the 3G is not so bad. They should give the products more durability.
I appreciate your polite opinion, I usually avoid giving my opinion because some people throw themselves on the neck !!
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Hahahaha
Obviously it is an opinion, and you are right that 3G has been around for a long time ...
Until 4 months ago I was a happy owner of an iPhone 3G and today it would have bothered me to realize that Apple has left me out of date!
Scheduled obsolescence!
a shame
I am an iPhone 3G user and I am almost glad for the news.
The iPhone 3G does not have the power of the iPhone 4 and, the new updates do not do much favor to the already old iPhone 3G. Since I updated to iOS 4, I have seen how the performance of my phone has dropped drastically: It is not so fluid, it takes too long in certain tasks and even taking a photo with geolocation (I have always had it active) now takes me a long time .
And worst of all, there is no official way to downgrade, so if I want to have my phone up to date, I have to accept the performance downturn.
It is not for nothing, but for a long time the updates that my phone has passed I have not seen necessary. With my iPhone 3G I am already like the elderly: first of all HEALTH, so I only appreciate updates that lower the battery consumption and make the operating system of my terminal lighter.
What Apple could do is release revisions of previous firmwares, without news, but with improvements in efficiency.
Salu3
it was about time .. the 3G can not hold any more and the 2G not to mention .. not even Angry Birds works well. genteee .. UPDATE !!! hahaha 😉
As they have already pointed out previously, that it is not updated does not mean that it ceases to be functional, I do not understand that tearing the clothes because the software cannot be updated if the phone is still perfectly operational.
I think the biggest insult is for users of an 3gb "8g" ipod touch. Like any new apple user, I sinned in buying the "new" 8gb version, not knowing that in reality, I had half the resources. At the same time of having bought it, I updated to version 4.0, leaving it VERY slow, with which, I already had a device that I had to "update" ...
It seems to me that you are very wrong in your opinion. Apple support for the iPhone has a two-year extension. This is well known. Therefore after that time there is the possibility that certain devices will stop having updates. With notice or without. Have your friends or opinions whatever.
I had an iphone 3g and with the firmware and games updates I was almost forced to switch to 3gs to enjoy the new things, such as: ARdefender, ARsoccer, Wordslens, HDR photos, Fifa 11 ... and it even improves the graphics in many games and applications, but I know that at other times they will put aside my 3gs
I would like my clients to be as submissive as Apple's, it is really pure envy of me, my clients are demanding and I always give them my best to keep them, but in the apple world, in fact they are happy about this news, in I really can't believe it.
It should also be borne in mind that a company that claims to be "green" is encouraging people to fill the planet with more garbage by buying and buying and only buying even though it still works.
what discrimination apple has! luckily I have a 3gs but I also have 2g and 3g, the 2g was understood because it was slow and blah blah !!! [but the 3g? Too bad! They should dedicate themselves to creating a firmware that makes the iphone 3g very fast and not like this! instead of leaving us aside!
They should get an update for 3G but I don't know what
Remove functions or something that is faster
Because the truth is 3G is already to cry slowly
With the new versions 3.1.2 you have to put
So that it is not so slow and it is not the case
@Nelvi sera, the ipod 2g could not hold any more and the iphone 3g or say, remember that the ipod has better resources than the iphone ...
And well, like many here, I think that Apple did well to stop giving updates to these devices that are already old and then better focus on the most recent ones to take advantage of 100% of their hardware
Many complain that iOS 4 is slow on their iphone 3g .. so why do they want more updates that, as you know, increase more options and therefore take up more resources!
I agree that Apple focuses the IOS4 on devices with more resources allowing greater exploitation of its resources, since in the beginning it was developed for these. What I disagree with is that they put aside "old" devices, since I bought my ipod a couple of months ago (that fake 3 gb 8g) in a MACSTORE, and now they stop giving me support and updates, it Which disappoints me and shows me how little contact apple has with its customers. At the very least, they should develop optimization updates, but apple's business is to stop supporting it, leave the device with an ios that slows it down, and have users "update" their device. Really not only apple on mac (any armed PC is VERY superior) but now I realize that it sucks with its mobile devices ...
I find it hard to believe that a person who signs as "graphic designer" says that any PC is far superior to a Mac ………….
@Gnzl but if it is true. use 5000 dollars to buy a mac, now use that same money and build a pc, which is superior? sure that the pc will be 3 to 4 times more powerful in any sense
at the same price surely, but Apple products are more expensive, but look at the iPhone, it is the best example, right?
A graphic designer knows that he has to spend a little more money to gain time and comfort when working.
What Apple has done is cheat with the version of the ipod touch 3g 8gb, because they sell it as a 3g generation but it is actually 2g..WTF? They are a large company, they should not do that ... I made the mistake of acquiring it and on top of that, another, updating to 4.2. If it is true that the capacity of an iphone 3g and an ipod 2g does not compare with the most current models, they should at least release a software that leaves them really functional and not one that leaves you waiting half an hour to load a game. ..
@Jobs
That is not exactly the case, when you buy a Mac you are paying for hardware and software, and this is a very important nuance, because instead of a Windows you are taking a Mac OS X, which is something incomparable, especially in the long run (stability, fluidity, not even a hang, does not degrade ...).
I use windows 7 ultimate and I am not going to describe the whole pc, but in total its components came out the same as a mac ...
As for stability, I never had any problem from the day I bought it, it is the best operating that Microsoft has released.
Fluency? sorry, but it works just as quickly from the day you buy it, it's more I live installing and uninstalling software. In fact, when I use software with quite heavy files (I also use mac) on my PC I can work them fluently, while on a mac it takes twice as long ...
It NEVER hung up on me ...
Degrades? sorry .. I haven't formatted it for a year and I have no problem ...
I understand your prejudices, because it is Apple's marketing to sell its hardware at a high price and justify it with the operating system, in fact it was one of the things that it earned, but nowadays the software behaves in the same way and knows how to take advantage of where there are more resources ...
@Gnzl of course, it's just about sharing experiences
@ Jesús Rodríguez you can even add the value of the apple operating system and still triple or quadruple the power on the pc with the same amount of money that you invest in a mac. I am using windows 7 and I have not had any problems so far.
Also remember that apple designs its software to work with its specific hardware, even so, I have seen errors in mac as there are in windows, the equivalent of the blue screen, the closing of the program with its respective report sending etc. on the other hand windows is designed to work with millions of possible combinations of hardware, even so mine is today 6 months later it has not failed.
Each one..I use Mac at home and Windows 7 at work,
And I am very clear which one I prefer
What Apple has to take into account are countries like Argentina, where the iPhone 4 just came out, they are not available and it costs 3000 pesos (750 dollars), with a monthly payment of 200 pesos (50 dollars), for two years. An iPhone 3G is worth 1800 pesos (450 dollars) with the same subscription. I am a user of an iPhone 3G, and my contract has just ended. This phone is almost impossible they bought here, it is a luxury, it is not worth that we do not have more updates !!!
you should take into account that most programs come out for windows !!!! I think that windows has always been more compatible with programs !!!, but apart from that I have my HP notebook core i7 I use ubuntu (nothing like linux) and I necessarily have windows for some programs, I think that each system has its own, no believe it !!!
In my country the 3g is worth 1200 soles but less than that would be 400 dollars something out there! I do not understand why they leave them aside! They should dedicate themselves to releasing a special firmware for the 3g to have it quickly to keep people happy!
And those of us who have an iPod Touch 2g with the gamecenter in English (iOS 4.2.1 bug), are they ever going to fix it?
Well, there I do, with all due respect, I put my hands in it
for no reason can you compare the mac osx with the windows?
I mean nothing to see the mac osx is not more elegant and iwal the windows 7 is very nice but nothing
What to see io I have 2 laptops one my mac and the other a Hp Pavilion and pz they cost me almost iwal because both are led screen and he told you in terms of design and everything knows that in mac it is better and true the bad thing about mac is the compatibility and it is not that they are not compatible, it is that it is so easy to program for windows that pz obviously everyone is ai only the largest companies have their programs for mac.
And because the prices are expensive and all but pz io with my 13-inch macbook I'm happy pz for a laptop is very fast and also has cutting edge things and pz also it is true a mac is more than anything a small place since its presentation it's very elegant
Lee kun of course there is no purchase, macosx has a closed system, in which everything costs! in windows it is vulnerable to viruses but you can put anything you want you can even hack windows, the games come out for PC XBOX, PS3 etc …… but not much MACOS !!!! they are very, very different things!
Yesterday I was at the Apple store in Madrid, they did not tell me anything but the rumor ran that from March 2, and paying 200 euros, they will change the damaged iPhone 3 for new iPhone 4. They will no longer repair iphone 3.
What a shame! I can't update to iOS 2 on the iPod 4.3G ... and I bought it in March of last year ... 1 year with it and I already have no updates ... It doesn't seem fair to me, it's true that it doesn't go as fast as an iPod 4G, but even if they do not include all the functionalities, let us update ... With the new applications that can only be downloaded in iOS 4.3, what will happen? Will we have to fuck each other? If so, I will honestly go for Android freedom, because I am not going to pay more than 200 euros every year just because Apple no longer updates their devices
aplee is a rasista that discriminates against iphon 3g and ipod 2g for being slow
beggar aplee