These apply to the iPhone and the iPod Touch. And I’m pissed.

I hate to have it getting the time and date reset to something in the past (can’t find any pattern on the new date/time) everytime I drop it in the dock and sync. This happens when iTunes is left open when the computer goes to sleep or hibernates (and closing iTunes before sleeping does the trick). It has been like this since forever, there are people reporting the issue since September 2007 (video). Why hasn’t this been fixed?

I hate to have it performing a device backup which takes forever and which I’ll probably never have a chance to actually use and not having a straight way to disable it without messing around. Bastards.

I hate to downloading 250 megs of firmware updates every 2 weeks (currently 2.0.2, released a couple of hours ago, downloading over 3G as we speak), checking the release notes and saying these are just “bug fixes”. Which ones? Fix the damn thing, will you?

A company with a market cap of over $150 billion should actually listen to the customers, right?

And don’t get me started on the interface. The user interface is brilliant if you’re planning to use it as a webpad, PDA, mobile phone, gaming console, show-off thingie, whatever. If you want to use it to listen to music, it’s terrible, it’s cumbersome, it’s annoying. One of the killer features of the “classic” iPods was ease of use, the simple (yet powerful, for a MP3 player) of the interface. Scroll wheel for changing the volume and… uh… scrolling. Simple menu structure. Easy to operate the device without actually looking at it (or having it inside a pocket, for instance). One actual “lock” button that “works”. Do I need to shell out $20 to get a remote and have it working properly?