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Like a number of disgruntled users and developers, I recently decided to trade my iPhone in for an Android device. My distaste for Apple’s app store policies, design philosophy and corporate culture had been pushing me in that direction for some time.  The final straw, though, was iOS 4, which rendered my iPhone 3G almost unusably slow while failing to grant any of the most noteworthy new features. The inordinate difficulty of downgrading iOS exacerbates the problem for users who are still stuck with the iPhone 3G.  To be fair to Apple, Wednesday will see iOS 4.1 released, and they’ve claimed that it will fix the iPhone 3G performance issues.  For me, though, 4.1 is too little, too late. (more…)