You just happened to be impatient, like so many out there, and updated the second you saw an update was available despite being warned all over the place since firmware 1.01 was released weeks and weeks ago.

I understand your frustration, and perhaps hacking is playing with fire, but you can play with fire and not be burned if you’re cautious.

That said, hack away! There ARE many opensource apps out there that I can’t do without on my iPhone now. ******* greedy Apple corporate strategies to milk consumers for every cent.

Apple’s is more like that proverbial fire you spoke of than hacking is. Play with Apple and you could get burned. Then they become the abusive other you keep going back to despite the black eye and bruises.

Actually that’s exactly what I did… I hacked the piss out of my 1.0.2 iphone, and when 1.1.1 came out I did a full restore and updated. I can’t honestly say I miss the hacks in the slightest. I’m a casual user, and outside the cosmetic benefits (themes, moving icons around etc.) I found most of the vaunted 3rd party apps to be mediocre, buggy and unreliable. Certainly none of them came even close to adding genuine functionality to the phone IMO.

Then again, like I said, I’m a casual user. I don’t even know what SSH means, but I’m sure if I did then I’d be missing apptapp something awful… right?