I've said it over and over... I'm not an Apple fanboy, the "cult of Mac" offends me something fierce... and up until the 3.x OS, I was relatively happy with my iPhone 3G.

3.0 introduced an odd behavior that would sometimes show up but was rather easy to circumvent. Sometimes the 3rd party programs would suddenly close upon opening them. All you would have to do is install a new app - a free app would do - then all of your past apps would work just fine.

But it annoys the living hell out of me.

3.1 didn't fix that. In fact, it made it worse. On some days the boot up will stick for 15+ minutes. And this is a recently replaced iPhone 3G. I had a 3GS for a day, but took it back because of some seriously bad dead pixels - which... well, it happens. They replaced my original iPhone 3G by mistake with a 3GS, noticed the mistake and the dead pixels and gave me back an iPhone 3G. No big deal, I'm not too concerned with a damn compass...

Back to my rant. So today, I had a phone that all of a sudden received text messages and voice mail from two days ago and going forward. I called AT&T and they couldn't locate any outages or anything. I called Apple and they asked me to restart the phone "just in case"... 15 minutes later, the phone hadn't even restarted.

They offered to send me yet another iPhone... but I have to pay some $30 bucks in order to secure a phone since I'm not really near an Apple Store. Yeah... right.

But seriously... I know I've ranted about missing dependencies/application catalogs before on the N810 and the iPhone just "works"... but since 2.2.1, the iPhone platform isn't "just working". And I'm not alone.

There's tons of people that are having similar problems. Nokia, make things work well. Not "just work"... but work damn well and you'll get the people that are upset about stuff like this.

Ugh. Sorry... I had to get that off my chest.