There have been many days I wanted to trade in my iPhone. Missing features from the phone was not the primary reason. The phone was riddled with bugs from crashing applications all the way to extremely slow keyboard responsiveness. Battery life has also been a real sore spot.
It was with great anticipation that I awaited the 2.1 release of the iPhone operating system. After running the new OS for a week I feel that many of my most frustrating issues have been resolved. Battery life - improved. Keyboard - more responsive at time of unlock and within applications. Application crashes - dramatically down. When Steve Jobs met with CNBC for a short interview after his recent keynote he smiled about the dramatic number of fixed in 2.1. That canny way of expressing the extent of bugs highlights how deep the bug list really was. The release offered very few enhancements. Those provided were very minor. This release was about bugs. Jobs and his team had to get those issues under control before the iPhone's image was tarnished. The phone risked becoming a showpiece with no brain. Now on to the enhancements!