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Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by xenophanes »

rbritton wrote: post #41
mclin wrote: post #28

I actually dislike it when this happens because I have to download the ~2.5GB dev kit again on my crappy connection before I can publish again. Or am I doing it wrong? Note: posted in other thread, but this one looks like it'll be the one.

It's worse. The download is 3.5 GB now, and it does not include any previous SDKs. Every project file you have has to be switched over to the current SDK to even compile.

Why can't they leave in the old versions? It'd be nice to use the simulator for various versions...

Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by steilpass »

steilpass wrote: post #21
swannodette wrote: post #11

Particularly excited that WebSockets may have made it into Mobile Safari.

Is there a list of Safari's iOS 4.2 features?

Not sure if I'm looking at the right direction but the Safari Reference Library is not showing any updates: http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/navigation/index.h...

Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by joshes »

marknutter wrote: post #2

And with that the value of my iPad just jumped $100 or so. This one has been a long time coming..

I've been waiting on this since I got my iPad back in June.

Needless to say this was an unexpected little surprise to start the week.

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Post by weaksauce »

DrJokepu wrote: post #51
thorax wrote: post #47

I can't be the only one who uses the iPad's orientation lock button frequently... The very impractical decision to transform it to a mute button is enough of a frustration that it will be a good while before I can convince myself to upgrade to an otherwise compelling release.

I suppose orientation lock on the iPad will be handled similarly as it is on the iPhone 4: double "click" with the button to bring up the task switcher, slide right the task switcher and the orientation lock button will be on the left.

Exactly, this is to make all the devices behave the same.

Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by alextgordon »

kemiller wrote: post #57
cstross wrote: post #5

Not available as of 14:14 here in the UK (on GMT). (Bloody Californians think their time zone is the centre of the universe. Grump.)

Says the guy in the arbitrarily-set-in-1847 +0:00 time zone. ;)

It's not entirely arbitrary. There's a limited number of places you can put the prime meridian without the date line bisecting some significant land mass (which would be very inconvenient for the people living there). Britain happens to be one of those places.

Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by maguay »

tibbon wrote: post #10
jeroen wrote: post #3

Improvements for iPhone: - AirPlay - The Find My iPhone feature is now free to use without a MobileMe℠ subscription - AirPrint ("a next-generation Wi-Fi print architecture that dramatically simplifies printing by completely eliminating printer drivers") (thanks, rufo) The free Find feature is only for "iPhone 4, iPad or new iPod touch (4th generation)"

I wonder why the free Find feature is only for the newest devices? Most of the time Apple is pretty good about only locking devices out if their hardware can't handle it. The 3GS should be able to handle it, right?

And the iPod touch 3rd gen (32/64Gb from late 2009/early 2010) should be able to get it too. Really frustrated they only included the latest devices... Their call, though :)

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Post by derefr »

_stephan wrote: post #33

Has anyone tried iOS 4.2 on the iPhone 3G and could comment on the performance?

I updated my 3G to the GM seed a week ago. So far, the only things I have noticed are icon tweaks in Safari, and the fact that textareas now don't lag quite as badly when they aren't getting a bloom-filter hit on what you've typed so far (I.e. Words not in dictionary/misspellings.) Oddly enough, the 3G doesn't even get the new set of SMS chimes.

Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by eswat »

DanHulton wrote: post #4

Hrm. What benefit does this bring to iPhone and iPod touch users? I don't really see any. It seems largely like an iPad release, but they're updating the version numbers for everyone.

I haven't tried the GM seed but I'm hoping for some under-the-hood tweaks for iPod touch, specifically an option for disabling wifi while it's sleep mode (kept on in iOS 4). Waste of battery and useless to me since I've turned off all Push notifications.

Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by gamble »

thorax wrote: post #47

I can't be the only one who uses the iPad's orientation lock button frequently... The very impractical decision to transform it to a mute button is enough of a frustration that it will be a good while before I can convince myself to upgrade to an otherwise compelling release.

I think they made the right decision. The orientation lock is still available on the task switching bar, which is a better place for it since there's no need to lock orientation unless the iPad is already unlocked and in use. The problem with the current 'hold volume down to mute' is that you can't mute without unlocking the iPad first... which makes a noise. It's also inconsistent with the iPhone.
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