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iOS 4.3 Beta Brings Software Option for Rotation Lock or Mute on iPad
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It's a very minor inconvenience but a small disadvantage that very few people ever consider. There are lots of similar situations, e.g., explaining to people what double-clicking the Home button on their iPhone means.
Here's a scary analogy. Suppose we all had a choice of cars, some with the brake pedal to the left of the gas, and some with them reversed. Do you think the results would be good? Luckily, pressing lock when you mean mute won't cause any deaths!
That improves with all the infrastructure build out with LLVM/Clang/libc++.
A lot of work is going into LLVM 2.9 for ARM chipsets.
Hopefully this will satisfy all the whiners who claimed they were never going to buy anotherproduct again.
Without those whiners, this would never have happened.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/pdf/iPad_Security_Overview.pdf
Make sure you're back end is set up correctly.
Hmm, Not sure you can correlate the two. It's a switch with a software option. Even cars have options. Fords have key entry, keyless entry, and numberic pad entry. I set up my entrtainment system with my logitech remote. I'm pretty sure it is completely different than my neighbords system. Is that wrong? No it's about choosing whats best for you. If you're smart enough to teach, you're smart enough to know the lock switch can go ONE of TWO ways. Let's not blow this out of perspective. Options are usually a good thing.
choice is good. I have no use for this but glad others have their way.
so will 4.2 launch febuary 10th with the cdma iphone?
or will it launch later in march, and unify the cdma and gsm phones
can anyone tell if the cdma drivers are in this developer seed?
so will 4.2 launch febuary 10th with the cdma iphone?
or will it launch later in march, and unify the cdma and gsm phones
can anyone tell if the cdma drivers are in this developer seed?
This is one of only three real complaints I have with the iPad... and the only one I've been so motivated to send an email to Apple about.
At the sight of this headline I almost jumped out of my seat and raced so fast to hit the "positive" I accidently hit the "negative". Holy crap.
The other two are
1. The ugliness of splitting the screen in half to reveal folder contents, and all that double clicking and scrolling around between screens.
2. Open up the freakin usb already. It's a portable device, which means any amount of the time, we're not going to be standing right next to our wireless access points. Forcing all apps to use wifi for connectivity means 1 your user experience is only as good as your connection, 2, a lot more network congestion, & 3, a lot of novices not being able to figure out networking & using the more impressive apps. Clean it up. Having to use file sharing and VNC over wifi is a little dumb when the iPad is right next to the MBP you're working on.
At the sight of this headline I almost jumped out of my seat and raced so fast to hit the "positive" I accidently hit the "negative". Holy crap.
The other two are
1. The ugliness of splitting the screen in half to reveal folder contents, and all that double clicking and scrolling around between screens.
2. Open up the freakin usb already. It's a portable device, which means any amount of the time, we're not going to be standing right next to our wireless access points. Forcing all apps to use wifi for connectivity means 1 your user experience is only as good as your connection, 2, a lot more network congestion, & 3, a lot of novices not being able to figure out networking & using the more impressive apps. Clean it up. Having to use file sharing and VNC over wifi is a little dumb when the iPad is right next to the MBP you're working on.
Actually, that's a pretty ****** analogy. This choice benefits the majority of people, while having a possibly negative effect on a very minute niche of specific scenarios, as the one you mentioned. In which case, you can spend an extra 5 seconds explaining to them that they can switch between 2 options in the settings, a rather benign inconvenience I might say.
No, your analogy isn't scary, it's just completely irrelevant and off-base.
When Steve Jobs first gave that message, I wondered if it would later become a clear instance of him changing his mind! (Not that Apple, and Jobs himself, have never done that before. They have.)
I still dont know which Id prefer (no iPad here yet) but Ill definitely like having both.
Maybe after all these months he finally had time to read a book in iBooks....
I still dont know which Id prefer (no iPad here yet) but Ill definitely like having both.
Maybe after all these months he finally had time to read a book in iBooks....
The new gestures will be awesome. They look very natural (as opposed to using the physical home button) and are similar to their implementation in Snow Leopard.
If in had to choose features, I'd take the new gestures over the lock switch option any day. Although, having the orientation lock back on the switch will be very welcome (it'll be the first thing I do after installing 4.3
).Out of curiosity
I wonder what could be included in future iOS versions? Guess I'm not imaginative enough but it seems 4.3 has just about all the features I could think of at the moment. AVRCP is finally in iOS 4.X AirPlay is great, and now AirPlay works through third party applications and I'm sure iOS App's may be allowed on the AppleTV. What next? Curious about anyone's ideas.
I wonder what could be included in future iOS versions? Guess I'm not imaginative enough but it seems 4.3 has just about all the features I could think of at the moment. AVRCP is finally in iOS 4.X AirPlay is great, and now AirPlay works through third party applications and I'm sure iOS App's may be allowed on the AppleTV. What next? Curious about anyone's ideas.
The thing about iOS 4 that annoys me the most is the lame implementation of multi-tasking. I as excited that multi-tasking came to iOS, however it needs some serious work.
how about having a physical button or switch for multi-tasking and leave the home button function previous to iOS 4.
How about this, pressing a physical button or switch will bring up a full screen page to show all the apps running, rather then the present only 4 at a time and a better quite or kill option for the apps running would be appreciated.
how about having a physical button or switch for multi-tasking and leave the home button function previous to iOS 4.How about this, pressing a physical button or switch will bring up a full screen page to show all the apps running, rather then the present only 4 at a time and a better quite or kill option for the apps running would be appreciated.
I'd like an option for the slide switch on the iPhone as well...specifically a dock profile. When in mute, have the option to have it muted when not in the dock or charging and audible when in the dock or charging. I always keep my iPhone on vibrate, but miss calls when it's docked and I'm out of my bedroom.
BBBUTTT WAIT APPLE DOESNT WANT YOU TO HAVE CHOICE> YOU ONLY GET THAT WITH ANDROID.
/sarcasm
To be fair I think it is something many companies could work on. Not so familiar with Android but I just don't really appreciate how restrictive companies can be in giving users some basic choices. What was the issue with simply letting the user have the choice in the first place? Again I'm not slating Apple specifically; many other companies do the same bizarre things and I still don't understand why - other than laziness. But even then it is not very difficult nor time consuming to implement a choice function when the actual functions have already been created.