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Should I buy a tablet pc, ipad, netbook, or other?
wraith808:
I do agree on the screen lock issue- seems pretty boneheaded, especially since the switch doesn't even operate like the iPhone (on the phone, it's a rocker sort of mechanism as opposed to the switch on the iPad.
-wraith808 (December 01, 2010, 02:26 PM)
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Actually it looks exactly like the volume switch on my iPod Touch (3G / 3GS equivalent components).
-steeladept (December 02, 2010, 02:50 AM)
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Maybe that explains it then. The one on the iPhone (3G and 3GS) goes back to front instead of up to down, and is a rocker type rather than a switch.
superboyac:
Um...there's both on the ipad. A rocker for the volume, and a small switch slider directly above it.
wraith808:
That's not what I was referring to. The lock/mute switch is a switch as shown on that picture. On the 3G/3GS there is a back and forth rocker type switch (going from the back of the phone to the front of the phone) instead of that same switch. The volume on both is similar.
superboyac:
OK, it doesn't really matter I suppose. I just think it's pretty silly to have that slider be ONLY a mute switch. Previously, it was to lock the screen's rotation, which is WAY more useful. First of all, why doesn't Apple let the user decide what that switch should do? See, this is a very good example of Apple just going a little too far with their nazi control. Who is Apple to decide what that switch should be for ALL users??
What's even more ludicrous is that Apple decides to change the function of that physical slider at a whim. Just whenever they feel like it. In iOS v4.1, that slider was a screen-lock (you can prevent the screen from automatically rotating when you rotate the device physically; it's useful in my case in the car when the ipad is on the seat and you don't want the view to keep rotating around as it slides around the seat). In iOS v4.2 that switch is now a mute-lock. What?? And when they changed it, they didn't allow an option to select one or the other. It's pretty insanely retarded behavior. Not only do they not let the user decide what they prefer it to do, but they get them used to one way, and then change it in the next minor update. Wow. Stuff like that makes my jailbreak-nerve to tickle.
sri:
Got a 64 GB WiFi+3G iPad few days back. It's cool.
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