The first thing that registered with me from reports of the next version of the iPhone OS is that the 3G won't support the new multitasking features. Does this mean that the 3G will not run the new OS, or just that the feature will not be enabled ? As for the features themselves, they're about what one would expect; strongly sandboxed to preserve the wipeability of apps - we can't have rogue apps jamming the machine, and not be saveable via the home key; Apple is dead right about that one. Wassever. It further fragments the landscape for developers, what with iPodTouch, 3G, 3GS and iPad it's almost as if you have to have a basement room full of hardware to roll out an app that works on everything. Almost as scary as trying to guarantee that your Android app works on 16 different phones with 16 different screen resolutions. Methinks some of the first generation of iPhone developers may need to learn to programme with all sorts of old fashioned stuff like symbolic constants. It's also a big giveaway that the hardware is going to get a decent refresh, pretty soon. You can't keep selling the 3G as the base model when it is already on the path to deprecation. So the 3GS becomes the base, and we get a 3GSuperDuper. But probably stuck with the old screen resolution; see that bit about symbolic constants, or cue lots of retrospective appstore evictions for apps that don't conform to the new screen size. A half-decent camera at last ? That depends whether a better lens would spoil the look.
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