It has been discovered that the iPhone 3G can indeed handle multitasking–Apple is simply denying it, and the most likely reason is to get people to buy a new iPhone. I figured that the limited RAM was the reason–but the idea that the 3G can do multitasking makes sense once you consider iAds. The 3G will be allowed to run that just fine, and it essentially employs a kind of multitasking, switching seamlessly between whatever app uses it and the ad software, which can include audio, video, interactive HTML5–even app downloads and other stuff. Apple isn’t going to turn off that feature in the 3G. Apple will not even allow limited multitasking equal to what iAds does. It could at least allow saving of app states, audio in the background (the iPod app already does it just fine, after all), and other stuff which probably won’t task the RAM too much, like GPS. But no. Want the multitasking? Buy a new iPhone.

Come on, Apple. Being dicks some of the time is expected, but you’re kind of pushing it lately. Keep this up and jailbreaking will become the norm, not the exception.