>Even if iOS 2 were designed more for the 3G than the original iPhone, it couldn't have required significantly more resources because no more became available!
That wouldn't matter if Apple were simply adding code that tested the hardware and manually added slowdowns on the older model. Your observation could be seen as lending credence to the conspiracy theory.
Isn't that the problem with conspiracy theories? There is no disconfirming evidence ever. All evidence is either neutral or somehow confirms the conspiracy theory.
That wouldn't matter if Apple were simply adding code that tested the hardware and manually added slowdowns on the older model. Your observation could be seen as lending credence to the conspiracy theory.