OK, I need to admit that most of the changes are good, i.e. I can either understand them or get used to them. I did know that sliding an email horizontally reveals the "delete" option in Mail. So this is good.

I also realized that with the new sorting of podcasts I can listen "from oldest to freshest" so this is nice.

The Matrix (in Street View) is imho more a funny thing than a bug / issue, so I do not really mind, although I still thing that placing a pin to switch to the Street View is somehow artificial, but honestly I do not know how to make it work differently (e.g. 3-finger tap?).

The only thing right now that annoys me is about downloading the new podcasts. It should NOT take me to the iTunes store to get new episodes, it should be all done from within the iPod.

But besides all that — I think this is a very very good update. I wish they had some of the features from the beginning.

Oh, just one more thing that is IMHO seriously broken. When you restore the iPhone (from a backup), order of your icons is alphabetical — so probably you would get everything messed. Why cannot backup remember the order of icons / apps and apply it later after the sync? No idea. Otherwise I am impressed how backup works and how transparent it is (I messed with jailbreaking this time, so I had to use it).

because it needs to know where you want to start looking at street view. very rarely are you just going to scroll somewhere on the map and want to enable streetview. for example: you said that you scrolled a looong way to california, and couldn't get into streetview without dropping a pin first. a faster way would have been to search for a location in california (could be anything as generic as los angeles, ca) and a pin would be automatically dropped for you. then you enter streetview from here. makes total sense to me.

"End of the world?"

come on, what would you want them to do here? street view requires a decent amount of data to be sent to your phone. if it doesn't have the data yet, it needs to display something. just like google maps displays a blank grid until the data for the map loads. would you prefer a blank screen? at least the grid implies what's going on.

while the firmware will always be able to have improvements, it seems like you're being a little critical here. most of the things you're mentioning seem more like features then bugs.

This is actually one of my favorite features. I've been waiting for them to do this for ages. I always listen to podcasts in sequential order. If i've missed 2-3 I can now listen to them in a row rather than have to back out to the menu between them.

Georgie Hammerton
http://www.mybloggywog.com

… I just do not understand why Apple made such bad decisions regarding the interface…

bo tak jest lepiej :]