ITunes 10 is it necaessary for a 3gs

I had a 3gs which I upgraded to ios4 which caused a lot of problems including dropped calls and rebooting. Apple Genius Bar replaced the phone with one with the ios 3.13. on it and advised me not to upgrade to ios4.
I am quite happy with the 3gs on ios 3.1.3 as the phone does everything I need of it. So my question is considering I do not really nned any features in the ios4 is it essential that I upgrade the iTunes to iTunes 10?

No, it is not essential. There have been a few complaints of bugs and annoyances in iTunes 10, and if your iPhone 3GS isn't running iOS 4, then you don't need iTunes 10. The major new feature added to iTunes 10 is a social music network called Ping, so if you don't need that, you most likely should stay with iTunes 9.
Hope this has answered your question!

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