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I have it. Ever since friday I’ve been the proud owner of an iPhone 3G. My verdict? Best phone ever. As I suspected the UI is revolutionary (which, by the way, I quoted by the local newspaper as saying). The iPhone is a joy to use. Soon I hope to get my developer key from Apple so that I can start coding for it for real. It’s also lovely that I can code for it using a language I love and an API that I already know a lot about.

Enough about the good. What about the bad and the ugly? Not surprisingly, there’s very little of it. Perhaps the biggest problem is that there are a couple of bugs in the OS, but I do expect that to be fixed with a software update. It would be nice to gain access to the Bluetooth module using the APIs as well. I expect this to come later. No MMS, Radio, voice dialing, whatever, blah blah woof woof. I don’t use it anyway. Does anyone really use MMS?

The App Store, while a really great idea; has some problems. There are a lot of craptastic apps. The most prominent example is the four or so “flashlight” apps. These took about 3 seconds to do, and there was no code what so ever involved in doing them. Why are they in the App Store? They are utter crap! They don’t deserve to be there!

If you don’t spend more than an hour making your app, it really has nothing to do on the App Store. Seriously. There’s also been some controversy about some developers adding leading spaces and such to their apps to have them listed first in the alphabetical listing. My view? Ban the apps and revoke the developer keys. If you can’t behave, you don’t belong with the real apps.

Apple, please clean up the App Store. Other than that, you guys have done great work, as usual.