I just finished reading an article on 9to5Mac that says that when the iPad is upgraded to iOS 4.2, the orientation lock will become a mute switch. As the article pointed out that since the change will be done through software, there will be a way to choose one or the other, or even both.
Well, think again.
The same article carried an email exchange between a 9to5Mac reader and Steve Jobs where the latter confirmed the reconfiguration and that the switch will not do both functions; nor there is a way to choose which function to assign to the switch. It will just be a mute switch. Period.
If you ask me, I would rather have the orientation lock function because I use my iPad a lot for reading books with iBooks or my PDF files with GoodReader. I like reading on the bed and it would really be a challenge to do that when the screen would keep rotating. Perhaps it's Jobs' way of telling me not to read on bed.
Why make it a mute switch when we could just adjust the volume to zero?
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