Yeah but....

Apple will be certainly fixing this problem, whatever its cause. But will they be fixing the far bigger problems with iOS4 on the iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2g: the lack of music multi-tasking and bluetooth keyboards?

The first president I remember well was LBJ and like many others I loathed him because his basic attitude was: "I'm lying, but that's OK. You're too stupid to figure it out." In three years him went from one of the greatest landslide wins in Presidential history to so little chance of winning in 1968 that he dropped out of the race. Nobody liked him because nobody trusted him

I feel much the same about how Apple has handled the release of iOS4. There was big hype about what it could do, but a strange reticence to be clear about just what features would be available on which devices. Like LBJ, it appears they thought we were too stupid to figure out what would happen. iOS4 would be gutted for all but the latest and newest models to puff sales. Even the recently sold iPhone 3G and the low-end iPod touch still being sold wouldn't get much.

And as with LBJ there was the lie. In LBJ's case it was the Vietnam War. For Apple, it's "inadequate hardware." iPhones have multi-tasked music since the beginning, but somehow the iPhone 3G, which handles iTunes quite fine as a background task, couldn't do the same for Paradox. The iPod touch 2g easily manages streaming stereo music to Bluetooth headsets, but somehow a few bits a second data stream from a Bluetooth keyboard would grind it to a halt.

Yeah, sure. If Apple thinks we can believe that, then Apple really does think we're stupid.

iOS4.1 needs to do what iOS4.0 should have done--provide adequate support for hardware a mere single generation back. If Apple can't do that, they Apple can't be trusted with our business.