No Donut or Eclair for G1 Owners? →
https://marco.org/2009/08/17/no-donut-or-eclair-for-g1-owners
(via Gruber)
- I clicked the story just to see if these were really their OS codenames. They really are. I love that they’re naming each version after pastries that are usually served at breakfast.
- Burning your early adopters like this could be fatal for the G1’s core fanbase.
The iPhone set a pretty high bar in this regard: the original, 2-year-old iPhone still runs all of the latest software and has almost all of the latest capabilities except those for which it lacks specific hardware additions, such as the 3GS’ video camera — but these tend to be minor in the overall use of the phone and its apps.