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FWIW, I have created a HN stream and added ~40 of you who sent emails. You should be able to signup to google+ using that. If it tells you to retry later, please do that. It works - eventually.

fk, you just described my life. I live in a fantastic bubble and work in a fantastic bubble. I travel in a car driven by my driver and I pretend the in between doesn't exist.

As an entrepreneur who moved to Bangalore recently, I completely agree to Sridhar's post here.

My 2 paise - do a India based / focused startup, just live outside India's cities (if you can't live outside India, that is).

Slashtags are a neat idea, can't wait to try it out.

Thanks for the lifehacker link. That would have saved me a couple of hours.

My experience has been horrible. I noticed bad slowdown in every app launching immediately after the upgrade. Apps took 30 secs to 1 min to launch (twitter, lose it, even calculator).

It progressively got slower. Keyboard response ground to a halt. It would take 3-5 secs for the keyboard response to show up on screen.

It became an useless paper weight.

I tried restore to 3.1.3 a few times and I would give up at the 1015 error and restore back to 4.0, which was probably a "clean" install. It didn't fix it.

The primary feature I was interested in was the orientation lock which is not available in iPhone 3G. Threaded email is nice, but not a deal breaker, same with folders.

Didn't work. Restore failed. Trying to restore to iOS4 now.

Trying now, thanks.

Do you mean a restore and reinstall all your apps?