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."
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If you still would like homescreen wallpaper despite the icon animation that "didn't perform well enough" you can follow this tutorial.
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Anthony - June 22, 2010 at 5:26pm
Steve Jobs, man of many words
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Tico JJ - June 22, 2010 at 3:20pm
Steve has a vested interest in making the older iPhones less desirable than the new ones. He is hoping that by limiting functionality, more of us will throw our 2G and 3G &GS in the trash and run out to stand in line to buy a new 4G.
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mistaderek - June 22, 2010 at 2:02pm
I jailbroke my iphone 3G and works perfectly!!!
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Nt02 - June 22, 2010 at 1:02pm
Steve Jobs should hire jailbreakers. Somehow all those themes out there seem to be working just fine...even on the 2G.
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brandon - June 22, 2010 at 1:29pm
yea i call bullshit on steve, it worked fine on summerboard back in the days.... they must be using some horsepower hungry way of doing it
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Kev - June 22, 2010 at 12:54pm
Jailbreak and you will get it :)
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Cody - June 22, 2010 at 12:54pm
completely true. it looks really slow and choppy. I'm considering editing the plist on my iPhone 4 to turn it off, maybe save myself some memory. I'm sure I could use the speed somewhere else.
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Cody - June 22, 2010 at 1:05pm
oh, and also, multitasking works great on my 3G. it's really unfair of them to try and stop you from streaming pandora in the background. jailbreak.
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