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Your impressions on iOS 4.2 GM
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Heh I was just making a thread with the same thing.
Overall I am extremely happy, folders are wonderful. Performance is still very quick as 3.2.2 was. Multitasking works just as advertised. The only gripe I have so far is that a lot of apps (Angry birds HD for example) don't support the fast-app-switching! Hopefully it doesn't take developers a long time to implement this as it's quite irritating. Can't try printing as I have no compatible printer. Threaded email/Unified Inbox is a very welcome change from 3.2.2
By the way in Safari, how do I search for certain words? Apple's website states
"Find text on web pages
In Safari, easily find and highlight specific words and phrases on large web pages."
Honestly I'm still kind of in shock, I checked twitter this evening and just about fell over when it said "iOS4.2 GM released!". I was expecting at least 1-2 weeks for a GM, then 1-2 more for an official product.
No issues to report on the OS side of things, love the brightness/volume bar on the "multitasking bar". Hate the orientation lock change.
Overall I am extremely happy, folders are wonderful. Performance is still very quick as 3.2.2 was. Multitasking works just as advertised. The only gripe I have so far is that a lot of apps (Angry birds HD for example) don't support the fast-app-switching! Hopefully it doesn't take developers a long time to implement this as it's quite irritating. Can't try printing as I have no compatible printer. Threaded email/Unified Inbox is a very welcome change from 3.2.2
By the way in Safari, how do I search for certain words? Apple's website states
"Find text on web pages
In Safari, easily find and highlight specific words and phrases on large web pages."
Honestly I'm still kind of in shock, I checked twitter this evening and just about fell over when it said "iOS4.2 GM released!". I was expecting at least 1-2 weeks for a GM, then 1-2 more for an official product.
No issues to report on the OS side of things, love the brightness/volume bar on the "multitasking bar". Hate the orientation lock change.
All you need to do is share your printer on your network and select Enable AirPrint under the iTunes preferences and you should be good to go.
I have the option to print but don't want to try it out since I don't want to waste ink.
I'm just liking the feel of 4.2 - it just feels right on the iPad. I don't think I'll mess with 4.2 on my iPhone until the actual release.
you use the search bar on the top right. There is an option that says "on this page." Its a very nice feature.
Apple has to get this out the door before DST ends in the US next weekend. They ignored new Zealand and Europe but ignoring the US would be really bad.
No, ignoring Europe was really bad as well, and if they knew of the bug before hand, ignoring NZ was really bad as well.
It's not worse because it's the US next.
Airplay and Spotify make an awesome combination: I can stream high quality from my iPad to my music system using an Airport Express router which pretty much makes my iTunes music library redundant now
Hoping that Spotify have got an iPad native version ready for release now Apple are accepting 4.2 apps!
Hoping that Spotify have got an iPad native version ready for release now Apple are accepting 4.2 apps!
Airplay and Spotify make an awesome combination: I can stream high quality from my iPad to my music system using an Airport Express router which pretty much makes my iTunes music library redundant now
Hoping that Spotify have got an iPad native version ready for release now Apple are accepting 4.2 apps!
Wait, does Airplay work with Spotify already?
Also waiting (impatiently) on a Spotify for iPad, thast would really, truly make the iPad the best player ever.
This is my first time getting my hands on 4.2, and I'm in love. Just being able to use IM+ and Atomic Web at the same time without having to deal with IM+ loading back up for 10 seconds is amazing. I used to use the built in browser while chatting, and eventually I'd crash the IM+ app. Now it's smooth sailing with multitasking.
Only tiny "gripe" I have is... well I just get a little paranoid pressing my home button a million times a day now lol. I know I've pressed it a lot more on my phone, but I feel different with my ipad about it.
All in all, love it!
Only tiny "gripe" I have is... well I just get a little paranoid pressing my home button a million times a day now lol. I know I've pressed it a lot more on my phone, but I feel different with my ipad about it.
All in all, love it!
My iPad hadn't got as much use as I had anticipated over the past few months, primarily due to the lack of multitasking making it a bit frustrating. But iOS 4.2 has made it quite exciting for me again. Folders are a godsend. Hitting the home button to multitask also feels more natural than on the iPhone.
Haven't had any problems with apps yet. A few of them multitask already which is nice (universal apps which multitask on the iPhone) .
Orientation lock is my only gripe so far. The accelerometer on this thing is quite sensitive, so I often lock/unlock the orientation when reading. I rarely mute it. Having to now go through the multitasking bar is a bit annoying, but I'm sure there will be a jailbreak fix for that.
Haven't had any problems with apps yet. A few of them multitask already which is nice (universal apps which multitask on the iPhone) .
Orientation lock is my only gripe so far. The accelerometer on this thing is quite sensitive, so I often lock/unlock the orientation when reading. I rarely mute it. Having to now go through the multitasking bar is a bit annoying, but I'm sure there will be a jailbreak fix for that.
AngelusV said:
I actually feel a lot better about the home button on my iPad than I do about my iPhone (3GS), because the actuation point of the button feels a lot clearer than on the iPhone.
That said, I wish there was a more natural gesture to open up the bar. Three-finger swipe up would do it, for example, it's just a pain to press an actual physical button when you're typing as much as I am on the thing, it feels unnatural.
I have one of the HP eprint printers that i thought let you print to them without the computer turned on - I'm sure either HP or Apple said it would work - still doesn't on the GM and no updates from HP yet.
Yep - it has since the first beta of 4.2 (it's an OS level thing so available automatically to all apps).
Knowing them, the update will only be available with a bulk purchase of original ink cartridges.
And all this talk has me convinced - I was going to wai until it was official, but I am going to give it a whirl now.
I agree it is pretty crappy to not update knowig for sure that there is an issue coming. (not sure about NZ, but for sure they knew about Europe) The main difference is that the US general press is happy to ignore stuff like this until it hits the US and the suddenly it will be front page news like they just discovered this and it is the end of the world. Then they will realize that the tech press already has been talking about that, which will lead to a whole new days news explaining that Apple should have known it was coming.
Does this mean that the date when iOS 4.2 is officially released will also be the date at which Apple will need to have taken iTunes 10.1 out of beta and made that into an official public release as well?
- Julian
All you need to do is share your printer on your network and select Enable AirPrint under the iTunes preferences and you should be good to go.
I have the option to print but don't want to try it out since I don't want to waste ink.
I'm just liking the feel of 4.2 - it just feels right on the iPad. I don't think I'll mess with 4.2 on my iPhone until the actual release.
I don't see the option for AirPrint in the Itunes preferences. There is an option for air play under the devices tab. Running 10.1B10
I don't think you can turn on AirPrint until 10.6.5 I have iTunes 10.1 beta and I don't see anything under preferences to turn it on...