Using “Method B,” I down­graded my iPhone firmware from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 today.  It was pretty pain­less, although I had to re-enter all of my email set­tings, WiFi set­tings, and speed-dials.  That silly fea­ture matrix from Wired pretty much sums up the rea­sons.  The Wire­less iTunes Store would have been pretty handy for lis­ten­ing to 30 sec­ond sound clips, when some­one brings up a song in con­ver­sa­tion (“oh yeah, I remem­ber that song.”) Other than that, I prob­a­bly would never use it.  The abil­ity to double-click the home but­ton to bring up the iPod con­trols was slick, but super­flu­ous.  I missed hav­ing a fake-GPS, a WiFi Stum­bler, a good dictionary/thesaurus/general-reference app, a shell ter­mi­nal, and sev­eral games.  It just wasn’t worth it to “upgrade” to 1.1.1.

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