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Mac OS X 10.6.5 and iTunes 10.1 to Launch Tomorrow? iOS 4.2 on Friday?

Cry Babies

I can't believe how many of you are having a cry about the switch!! Presumably most of us are grown men/women.....and you're crying about a button being changed? But you're happy to scroll through 5 pages of apps and don't see that as an inconvenience at all?

Are you all upset that the screen brightness will be in same position as the new scroll lock? 5 touches of a screen.....a whole 1 second of your life. I'm guessing by time most of you run your finger along the side of the ipad to get the switch and then flick it that you could have done the software adjustment too.

Toughen up you whingers.
 
lethalOne said:
Not really. My response was simply saying that iTunes 10.1 and iOS 4.2 will likely land together.

10.6.5 can follow or precede but isn't a requirement to use iOS 4.2. It can arrive before, with or after iTunes 10.1.

iTunes 10.1 is a requirement to use iOS 4.2 - so it must fall with or before 4.2.

Likely all will arrive at once - that way only one restart is required.
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Ah, I c now
 
For the complainers about the rotate lock, I have to wonder why you even bothered to get an iPad in the first place.

The reason why I ask this is that I would have much more use for a mute switch than the rotate lock switch because I take my iPad outside of my house. If you never take your iPad outside of your house, why did you bother getting one in the first place?

Who in their right mind is going to use the rotate lock often? You might set it if you are going to be reading for a while and you want to keep the screen from changing rotation or when watching video but otherwise, who cares?

A mute switch, on the other hand, is far more useful when you are out and about or have your personal iPad with you at the office. You might want to be able to quickly silence audible calendar alerts, new email sounds and other audible notification sounds.
 
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nsayer said:
WiiDSmoker said:
64bit iTunes or bust!
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Why?

So it can take up more RAM?
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64 bit does provide a slight performance boost, but I hardly consider iTunes as being a product that needs it, and it surely doesn't need access to more than 4gb of ram, and like you said, 64 bit binaries do take up more ram.
 
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aristotle said:
For the complainers about the rotate lock, I have to wonder why you even bothered to get an iPad in the first place.

The reason why I ask this is that I would have much more use for a mute switch than the rotate lock switch because I take my iPad outside of my house. If you never take your iPad outside of your house, why did you bother getting one in the first place?

Who in their right mind is going to use the rotate lock often? You might set it if you are going to be reading for a while and you want to keep the screen from changing rotation or when watching video but otherwise, who cares?

A mute switch, on the other hand, is far more useful when you are out and about or have your personal iPad with you at the office. You might want to be able to quickly silence audible calendar alerts, new email sounds and other audible notification sounds.
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So what you're saying is that it's you're way or the highway?

Get over it. You can hold the volume button down for a second and it will mute.
 
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BaldiMac said:
NeverhadaPC said:
Will OS X finally be 100% 64 bit?
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What part of OS X is not currently 64-bit?
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Little bits here and there... and some people think a 64 bit kernel actually matters. 99% of the time, a 32 bit kernel will be fine. OS X is 64-bit, retaining 32-bit comparability throughout the OS. A 64 bit kernel would require 64-bit drivers, so there's a plus for 32-bit. Plus, it sometimes can be 64 bit.
 
iPhoneFour said:
Unless they address screwing up the iPad rotation lock-switch, they can choke on the upgrade. I'm not trading one flick of a switch for 5 gestures. That's not an upgrade - that's self-abuse.
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Dude - its a double click and one swipe for the orientation lock. Give me a break.
 
res1233 said:
Little bits here and there...
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I was asking which bits are not 64-bit.

and some people think a 64 bit kernel actually matters. 99% of the time, a 32 bit kernel will be fine. OS X is 64-bit, retaining 32-bit comparability throughout the OS. A 64 bit kernel would require 64-bit drivers, so there's a plus for 32-bit.
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OS X already has a 64-bit kernel. :confused:
 
I don't see why you guys are giving the guy who wants his hardware orientation lock switch a hard time. I don't care what the switch was originally intended for. The average consumer who doesn't read rumor sites knows nothing about it. But for the functionality of a button to CHANGE from one version to another is stupid.

If you never use the switch, then that's fine. But if you use it all the time, the upgrade is going to force you to change your habits. An upgrade shouldn't do that. Imagine what a pain it would be if 5.0 swapped the functionalities of the sleep/wake and home buttons. Would you say that was a good idea?
 
WiiDSmoker said:
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So what you're saying is that it's you're way or the highway?

Get over it. You can hold the volume button down for a second and it will mute.
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No, Steve Jobs is saying it. You get over it. The switch was originally intended as a mute switch if you looked at the early product pages but they had to change it to a rotate lock when they could not get the software rotate lock out it time for the iPad release and it is now coming this month with iOS 4.2. If the iPad is sitting on my desk in a messenger bag, would rather have a mute switch than having to fumble with the volume rocker.
 
Greg McBride said:
You forgot about having to click the home button again after touching the rotate lock icon. So, technically, he's right. It's five painstakingly excruciating actions!

(click + click) + swipe + touch + click

Apple will never be able to position the iPad as a productivity tool again! All of these lost seconds will never fly in the enterprise environment.

P.S. - That was all sarcasm, in case it wasn't obvious.
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Technically, you don't have to do that last click. Just touch the screen anywhere besides the multitask bar and it will slide down. No need for the last click
 
aristotle said:
For the complainers about the rotate lock, I have to wonder why you even bothered to get an iPad in the first place.
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When I am using the iPad as a teaching tool (which is daily), I like to be able to set it down on a table or hold it facing away from me so a group of people can gather around and watch what I wish to share with them. In this capacity, the hard wired rotation lock switch is much more useful to me than using the switch as a mute button. I've been using 4.2 for the past few days and, while not terribly inconvenient, it is much more disruptive to use the soft button for rotation lock than using the hardware switch, which was easily accessible regardless of the screen orientation. ie I could lock the screen while holding the iPad facing away from me before, but now I have to stop my presentation, turn the iPad towards me, and then go through the motions to lock the screen.

I think it is overly redundant that I now have 2 hard wired ways of muting the iPad. I'm not threatening to sell it or never buy Apple products again, by seriously, why isn't this a setting preference??
 
You're Correct

Phil A. said:
It's actually worse than that - the iPad is currently on 3.2, so they are prepared to forego folders, multi-tasking, AirPrint, AirPlay and improved performance because Apple have re-purposed the switch...
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Good catch. That should have been a 3.2, not 4.1. In any case its pretty idiotic to give up all the 4.2 goodness because of a switch.
 
WiiDSmoker said:
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You can hold the volume button down for a second and it will mute.
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So. I'm lying it bed. The iPad is nearby. It's 3 in the morning. I realise I've been woken up by an audible email alert, and want to mute the iPad.

So I either:

a) flick the mute switch with one hand - 1 step I can do in the dark by touch.

or:

b) open the ipad cover - possibly two hands required
press the home or power/sleep button - the screen lights up, annoying my wife and shocking my own rested pupils
swipe the screen to wake the iPad from sleep
reach over to the down volume button and hold that for a second
reach up to the power/sleep button and press that to turn the screen off
close the case

Give me the mute switch any day.

And no, don't make it customisable. Consistency of operation on all iPads.
 
yea!

Sounds good, I'm ready! It will be great to finally have the iPhone and iPad on the same version of iOS!
 
WiiDSmoker said:
Get over it. You can hold the volume button down for a second and it will mute.
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I have to disagree there. Unless you are actively playing something, volume button doesn't respond unless you turn on the iPad and UNLOCK it first, as far as I remember. For instance, mute switch is very useful to kill alarms or email notifications going off without having to turn on and unlock the iPad first. I sleep with my iPad on my nightstand and it's annoying when I forget to mute it and have to go through the process of muting it via volume button in middle of the night. That's my case so it may not apply to you, but it's not completely useless as a mute switch.
 
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I can't wait to get my alarm fixed. Excited!
 
nep61 said:
Same here.... :mad:
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Just ring apple iPhone tech support and order a replacement. They're covered under warranty. It's a hardware issue not software so it will never fix with updates.

I ordered my replacement just yesterday. No fuss whatsoever. They're aware of the issue and send a replacement next day. They charge $30 for the priority service if you want a new one sent to you before sending back the old one but my cell carrier has picked up the tab on that one.

Get the new phone and send the old one back in the same box they deliver in.

Doesn't get any easier than that.
 
sladey said:
So. I'm lying it bed. The iPad is nearby. It's 3 in the morning. I realise I've been woken up by an audible email alert, and want to mute the iPad.

So I either:

a) flick the mute switch with one hand - 1 step I can do in the dark by touch.

or:

b) open the ipad cover - possibly two hands required
press the home or power/sleep button - the screen lights up, annoying my wife and shocking my own rested pupils
swipe the screen to wake the iPad from sleep
reach over to the down volume button and hold that for a second
reach up to the power/sleep button and press that to turn the screen off
close the case

Give me the mute switch any day.

And no, don't make it customisable. Consistency of operation on all iPads.
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+1. Little late with my post :D
 
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