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Originally Posted by =X=
Well the word from Google is that everybody that has the Nexus 7" is using a beta release of JellyBean(4.1) and is for developers not the public.
The final release will have more features and improved stability. I'd imagine if enough folks calmer up about not liking the home screen locked in portrait mode they might add landscape mode by the time the product is released.
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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
Not too likely, really. Many devs have their own ideas about how things should be done, and deliberately restricting the included features that would allow one to easily get away from that vision is quite common (for example, look at Ubuntu and GNOME with their switch away from a proper desktop to Unity and Shell 3 interfaces over in the Linux world, and all the hollow justifications made to support the changes not even leaving the option to use computers the way they've been used for the last 25 years or so).
If it's not just an oversight (which, sadly, I doubt), the odds of it changing are incredibly low, thus forcing users to find UI replacements to be able to use the device in a way the average user would expect to be able to.
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Never underestimate the FORCE of the "Schedule" and meeting requirements set by Marketing.
In my own business, it had to do with the weather, the approaching front, the rising water, the coming of day or night, or the missing hikers, the lost stallion and mare. Sometimes which way the wind was whipping the fire.
In the old days, it was the pressures of life and death in combat.
If you have read about the two unarmed (no ammunition) fighter planes that went to force down Flight 93, you will see the interchange from the commander to his then trainee student in the other plane when she didn't get off the runway fast enough for him.
"Why the hell aren't you up here?"
The planes had had no time to rearm, and later that Commander said "I will take the cockpit" The young female Lieutenant said "I will take the tail." The planes were unarmed, and they would have to crash into their targets on Flight 93 without ejecting first to make sure they didn't miss.
The point is that sometimes You gotta GO when you gotta go and you are not "totally" ready.
(It turned out that the passengers on Flight 93 also acted, and did it before the fighters got there so that at least 2 lives were spared.)