Steve Jobs on Why the iPhone 3G Didn't Get Homescreen Wallpapers

Steve Jobs has responded to a customers email asking why the iPhone 3G didn't get wallpaper backgrounds on the homescreen.

-----
“Hey Steve! I just upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS 4 and was really looking forward to setting a background on my home screen. Guess that’s not happening, but I’d like to know why.

See, I get why you don’t include multitasking. My iPhone gets pretty hot when certain apps run, couldn’t imagine how multitasking would fry my phone.

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."
-----

"The icon animation with backgrounds didn’t perform well enough."

-----

If you still would like homescreen wallpaper despite the icon animation that "didn't perform well enough" you can follow this tutorial.


[via Gizmodo]