Apple is now requiring users to have actually purchased applications before they are allowed to post a customer review on the App Store.  While there are definitely genuine comments on the iTunes App Store, there’s also too many people that’s decided to use the user reviews as an open discussion forum - asking for reviews, complaining about the price, or leaving advertisements to their websites.

This is a good move by Apple to improve the quality user reviews on the iTunes store.

After a couple of weeks off — we are back in business.  Reviews and news will be coming shortly.  In addition, we’ve been working on “miPhone 2.0″ - complete with a new look, better navigation, contests, and much more.

Stay tuned - miPhone 2.0 is scheduled for mid October.

Let’s cut to the chase.  The 2.1 firmware is out and now available for download on the iTunes store.   Unlike the previous upgrade, which provided such descriptive info as “bug fixes”, the release notes provide a lot more info:

iPhone 2.1 Software Update

iPhone version 2.1 contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
•  decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
•  significantly improved battery life for most users
•  dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
•  improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
•  faster installation of 3rd party applications
•  fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes if you have lots of 3rd party applications
•  improved performance in text messaging
•  faster loading and searching of contacts
•  improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
•  repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
•  option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
•  Genius playlist creation

I’m installing it right now and see how it goes!

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