I had to explain today to my disappointed dad why he cannot change the home screen background on his iPhone 3G (owners of iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS can do it), and I wasn’t really sure why. Luckily, the answer comes from Apple’s head honcho, Steve Jobs himself.
Gizmodo reader Erica wrote Steve an email asking why older version of the iPhone didn’t have this option. “See, I get why you don’t include multitasking,” she wrote, “but the background thing, I don’t see how that would be memory intensive and/or battery draining. It doesn’t seem like that feature needs to be exclusive to the 3GS and 4G.”
Steve’s answer was simple: “The icon animation with backgrounds didn’t perform well enough.”
From my experience on an iPhone 3GS, sliding through screens can sometimes feel a bit twitchy, and (at least subjectively) slower than before. It’s quite possible that the icon animations combined with the new backgrounds were simply too much for the poor old iPhone 3G. It seems that Apple really does update the hardware in these things!
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I had to explain today to my disappointed dad why he cannot change the home screen background on his iPhone 3G (owners of iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS can do it), and I wasn’t really sure why. Luckily, the answer comes from Apple’s head honcho, Steve Jobs himself.
Gizmodo reader Erica wrote Steve an email asking why older version of the iPhone didn’t have this option. “See, I get why you don’t include multitasking,” she wrote, “but the background thing, I don’t see how that would be memory intensive and/or battery draining. It doesn’t seem like that feature needs to be exclusive to the 3GS and 4G.”
Steve’s answer was simple: “The icon animation with backgrounds didn’t perform well enough.”
From my experience on an iPhone 3GS, sliding through screens can sometimes feel a bit twitchy, and (at least subjectively) slower than before. It’s quite possible that the icon animations combined with the new backgrounds were simply too much for the poor old iPhone 3G. It seems that Apple really does update the hardware in these things!
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For more Apple coverage, follow Mashable Apple on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook
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Tags: iOS4, iphone, iphone 3g, steve jobs
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Steve Jobs: iPhone 3G Couldn’t Handle iOS4 Backgrounds
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July 16th, 2010 at 8:20 am
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