Why was spilt view axed from mail?

[daneoni]

So i was bored since footy transfer window hasn't yielded anything great and tv showings were crap, i decided to watch the MWSF 07 Keynote again (i know i'm sad) and noticed steve demoed split view in mail where you get a preview of each message without actually tapping into the msg.

However this never made it into any Firmware...anyone know why? it would've been a nifty/time saving feature instead of having to navigate to each msg to read it. Speaking of time saving, a unified inbox wouldn't hurt either

EDIT: I just continued watching and realised steve said "I can choose the split screen view...but i actually like the fullscreen view. Nuff said. What steve wants he gets, i would guess he ordered them to remove the option altogether

 

[PoitNarf]

Eh, the default "2 lines" preview in each message is good enough for me. It doesn't seem to me that the iPhone screen is sufficiently large enough to make a split view email screen very handy.