iPhone OS 3.0 Revisited

I've been running the OS 3.0x on my iPhone for just over two months now (I upgraded near the end of June), and I'm sorry to say that I am very disappointed with it. Sure, it has some improvements -- cut and paste is great when it works, but there are many times that it doesn't work.

By far, the biggest problem I've had with it is performance. It just sucks. I regularly find myself several WORDS ahead of the keyboard when typing, I can't say for sure, but I think typing is actually slower than the initial release when the iPhone 3G was released. Maybe it's me? Do I type too fast Apple?

I've also run into countless network-related problems. I regularly start up TwitterFon and hit the refresh and am told that there is no network connection. Sure, maybe it's a TwitterFon issue? But I get exactly the same thing with Safari - it'll open up, start refreshing the current page, then pop up a "no network connection" message, and then actually refresh the page behind the popup window.

Beyond performance, I've lost count of the number of times I've had to actually turn the phone off and then on again in order to get any sort of network connection. It's almost like I'm running Windows Millenium Edition. Sometimes the phone will say there is no service and and after restarting will have a decent 3G signal. Other times it will have a strong 3G signal and will just not connect to anything (Safari fails, Facebook, TwitterFon, etc).

Did I mention - I still can't send or receive an MMS message?

I have to wonder. Apple - is this intentional? Did you intentionally make the new OS slower so I'd run out and buy a new phone? Maybe you should have talked to AT&T about that (come on, we know you talk to them about everything). I might have upgraded phones if tey didn't make it so freaking expensive. And who knows, maybe next year when my contract was up, I might have thought about upgrading to the iPhone 3GS++. But lately, all I think is "man, is this what life is going to be like, Apple ships an update, I install it, and life sucks" (remember the last two Mac OS X updates trashed my previously stable machine). Do I really want to invest any more in you?