iOS5 upgrade breaks Stanza – *hate*

OK, I upgraded my iphone 4 to iOS5 tonight.

Looks pretty slick, phone is responsive – had to wipe apps (I expected this, no biggie – restored them).
Then I go to use the primary app I use on here – Stanza. I have gigs of books, its what I do when waiting for my daughter at school, when on long trips, when going to bed, and whenever I can just relax.

What do I get instead of the book I was reading? Some fatal exception. I fully close the app and try again, same thing. No update for Stanza is on the iphone store… hrmmm, google time!

Yea, evidently its a known issue, and Stanza was purchased by Amazon. I dont think its in their best interest to release an update to a product that would compete with their ebook reader. So I think, screw this – lets downgrade this, since I backed it up and all.

NOT!

Evidently, apple feels that once you apply their new firmware, for some damn reason, there is no going back. Is this some hardware incompatibility? No, they simply tell their servers ‘this device cannot downgrade’, and bam – I’m stuck.

Thanks Apple, for making my phone a worthless pile now, and removing the thing I spent 4 hours a day doing.