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While the Apple firmware 1.1.1 update was met by the usual fanfare of undiluted praise from the fanboys, it looks like the more impartial users are less than satisfied with the recent upgrade. The report over on Gizmodo makes great reading, and comes to the conclusion that the iPhone now isn’t worth buying!

The core of their argument is that now they can’t access the third party apps that they think makes the iPhone so useful. I think they sum it up very well when they say:

It’s understandable for Apple to wage a war on unlocking the iPhone, since the company shares revenue from fees with AT&T. But the truth is, if cellphone service was awesome, like it is on iTunes, there wouldn’t be a need to unlock the iPhone. Secondly, bricking these things is totally uncool, and apparently, malicious—according to some early code investigations by the independent iPhone Dev Team, Apple could have avoided this entirely.

Perhaps the most compelling argument can be found in the statement, “Programs like the faux-GPS, IM clients, Flickr Upload, and NES emulator—what did they ever do but make the iPhone far better than the stock original? They made it far more competitive with open-platform superphones like the Nokia N95, to which I will now be switching.”

Apple will ignore this as they always do. They have such a huge following of addicted fanboys who are brain dead to anything other than “Apple is great because it is Apple” that they will continue to go from strength to strength, and they deserve to for their design and creativity alone. It would be nice though if they actually listened and took on board some genuinely good advice from time to time.

Read [Gizmodo]