Flutterby™! : iPhone frustrations

Maybe it's expectations. Maybe I should be amazed that I have a full-color web browser in my pocket (although I was accessing internet maps from a PDA back in the y2k timeframe) and not frustrated by all the little quirks and half-finished crap that seem to plague this device, but:

• Charlene's iPhone needs a new screen. It's got color fringing and minor jigglyness. There's a trip to the Apple store and some hours, perhaps days, without a phone. Guess we'll need to get another phone for backup (Forest got the Nokia, the LGs both died (nobody mourned the latter)).
• The JPEG images in any way I can get them off the device have no EXIF data. WTF? You don't have to store much, but how about creation date/time?
• The paternalistic "Apple knows best" attitude. There's a lot of cool applications out there for the iPhone. Most of them require jailbreaking your iPhone. The cool apps which don't are hobbled by the fact that it apparently takes weeks to get an update through the iPhone store.
• All the apps which take a meaningful amount of time to do something, which seems to be everything that'll batch upload photos, also appear to tank if the screen saver kicks in. So photo uploading is a "keep tapping the screen" process.
• The prevalence of non-useful error messages. And if an app is killed because some sort of exception, it'd be nice to know, rather than "Oh, look, I'm back at the apps screen, I wonder what happened?"
• Battery life. Although it's better (ie: actually usable untethered) if you turn off WiFi.
• iTunes. I was going to leave it at that, but: Good Deities what a steaming pile of annoying UI decisions.
• A useful search in iTunes: Find "App Store" on the left side of the iTunes home screen, then "Power Search" over on the right side. That big "Search" box on the upper left of the application window is useful only if you're looking songs from the latest third string auto-tune user.
• Hey, they're all web pages anyway, how about letting me access them from Linux?
• Bookmark sync options in iTunes: IE and Safari. Firefox? Opera? Bzzzt. Thank you for playing.
• Auto-correction. I have yet to have this do the right thing. It's wrong often enough that I can't just keep tapping after I make a keyboard mistake, because it'll take longer to correct that than to just go back and fix what's there.
• Not all text fields allow cursor repositioning. Huh.
• That loud shutter sound and image that freezes for a moment when you take a picture? Yeah, not actually your picture, that'll be taken some short but apparently random time later, leading to images of sidewalks and parking lot stripes if you don't hold the camera up for a fairly long-time afterwards.

The web in my hand is very cool (although I did have this 8 or 9 years ago with the Palm Vx and OmniSky back). The digitizer rocks. The screen is... well... for reading any amount of text, I actually preferred the old monochrome LCD on my Palm Vx, but that may be mostly font choices and sizes.

I'm not quite ready to take it back, but the experience is marred by crap that just has rough edges. I expected better.