And the biggest disappointment of all? NO FLASH PLAYER IS BEING RELEASED WITH THE UPDATE NOW. They have yanked Flash 10.1 from the update. And please don’t start with the stupid debate about Flash being “lame” or “useless” or a “battery hog”. The fact is, FLASH EXISTS ON THE WEB IN A HUGE WAY, and we have no way to access those websites and Flash features on those websites through our Android phones.

And the biggest slap to the face in regards to no Flash player? Those damned YouTube videos that were released by Adobe devs showing an Android phone with Flash Player running on it. They dangle the carrot, they take the carrot away, and act like it was never there.

That blows whole herds of yaks.

Why am I sick of the iPhone? No Flash and it appears there never will be Flash on the iPhone. No foward and back Bluetooth controls. Cobbled in and rather primitive copy and paste (my PC with Windows 3.11 and my Mac Plus copy and pasted better than the iPhone) odd Apple can’t fully implement a feature on computers 20 years ago. I can’t copy an appointment and paste it into another timeslot (something my old Palms and Pocket PCs could do).

And my favorite iPhone features, soft reset daily so all functions will work right expecially Bluetooth. And living in an Orwellian state that requires hands free cell phone use this is now a mandatory feature that HAS to work right.

When it get’s really bad hear the Apple store tech tell me to reset to factory (reload the operating system to original). Last OSs I had to do that on, why Windows 9x. I laugh everytime I see one of those Apple commercials picking on Microsoft. Sorry Apple you are no better! I was nice to the Apple tech the last time he said that I made no comments about Win9X but oh did I want to! Nothing quite like moving all my apps around for the next two weeks to get them back to where I know where they are.

Oh and how many times I was told my Win 9X machines had too many apps. Guess what I’m being told is why my iPhone doesn’t work right!!!! Now I need a truckfull of apples and a cider press to get my frustrations out. What’s the point of having 10,000 apps on the Apple store if I can’t install more than aproximately 80?

And Apple sold 1 million original iPhones in 74 days. The Droid barely beat that record, and the iPhone still sold that many even though it was unsubsidized. Both the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS sold over a million devices in the first weekend alone.

When you get a custom ROM, it doesn’t undergo the kind of testing that the phone manufacturer and network put it under. For one, the custom creators likely don’t know what they would have to test, and wouldn’t care if they did. It seems to work, release it. They have no liability if your phone burns itself out and (because you rooted it) isn’t covered by the warranty.

People say that they’re willing to take the risk, but as soon as the phone stops working, who will they blame? Themselves for running unapproved and untested software? No. It’s because it’s a crappy phone. Bad manufacturer. Bad manufacturer!

Customs don’t have to worry about reputation the same way that a company like Verizon, HTC or Motorola does. It’s little wonder they take their time testing and retesting before they release anything. They’re dammed if they do and dammed if they don’t, so they might as well follow the path that causes them the lowest liability.

I’m not sweating it too much. I’m stable and good to go. No need waiting for Motorola or Verizon. If the OTA update is decent, perhaps I’ll see about going back to stock.