I do agree with the online services part, but
> What was it like playing Angry Birds on an iPhone 3G? We do not know; Apple is no longer distributing signed receipts for that binary.
The iPhone 3G is very jailbreakable.
> the broadcasters used RealVideo and Windows Media Encoder and we cannot read those files.
It's not like ffmpeg is going to poof out of existence in the foreseeable eternity.