MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - iPad iOS 4.2 kills the orientation lock switch

Crowl · 10-26-2010, 03:30 PM

That is such a horrible change to not even allow people the choice of which functionality they want given that the lock orientation switch has been there for about 6 months, it is fair enough that they want consistency across their devices, but they could easily do that by allowing all devices to choose with mute being the default or something.

I don't use the orientation lock switch very much, but the times when I do it is extremely useful, whereas a mute switch seems far less useful since I would pause any media I was playing on ipad instead.

10-26-2010, 03:30 PM	#8
Crowl Wizard Posts: 1,340 Karma: 1160346 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Southport, GB Device: Kindle Voyage, PW Signature edition	That is such a horrible change to not even allow people the choice of which functionality they want given that the lock orientation switch has been there for about 6 months, it is fair enough that they want consistency across their devices, but they could easily do that by allowing all devices to choose with mute being the default or something. I don't use the orientation lock switch very much, but the times when I do it is extremely useful, whereas a mute switch seems far less useful since I would pause any media I was playing on ipad instead. Last edited by Crowl; 10-26-2010 at 03:46 PM.