How do I remove 4.2.1?

Why do all the benefits have to enter into the conversation about the switch? Why can't the switch simply be made a user preference? That way, the handful of folks who think it's 'stupid' or 'silly' or who just plain don't get it can just go about their lives without feeling the need to say they don't get it...

David M Brewer wrote:
Think for a minute...

What if... the switch was a mute switch to start with and Apple changed it to a screen orientation lock switch.
OH THE HORROR!!!

Then the handful of people here who like being able to mute only system sounds could complain and the many that get the change could applaud?

uburoibob wrote:
HOPEFULLY, 4.2.1 will have corrected that awful backup problem. If you weren't one of those who experienced the backup problem, chiming in here would probably not be helpful. But if you DID, do you know if it's been fixed?

Yes, it's been fixed. Takes less than a minute for me now. On 3.2.2 it took up to an hour.

uburoibob wrote:
So because YOU or the next post don't ever use the switch, you STILL can't understand people that do? REALLY? Are you THAT limited? And you find a switch that PARTIALLY mutes the iPad less 'stupid'?

Looks like we have thousands who 'get it' and a few who don't, or can't.

And for that, it is gone...

Sigh...

You still have the switch! It's just moved. You can still hold your iPad in some bizarre way if you want to.

Get ready for the tirade about how difficult it is to use the software switch.

I'm off to sleep now. It's been a tiring day! I might even say hello to my wife! I look forward to the tirade in the morning.

LOL! Sorry obviously been a long day. 512 MB

I know. No matter what Apple does, someone is going to scream about how they are inconvenienced.

I like the new features too.

Tamara I have a question for you. On the iPhone, do alters sounds happen when you are talking on the phone or video tapping if the mute switch is off?

Tamara wrote:
I know. No matter what Apple does, someone is going to scream about how they are inconvenienced.

I like the new features too.

Can someone PLEASE explain what the new features have to do with altering the functionality of the switch? Why do you keep bringing up the new features as if it is some sort of tradeoff?

I just want it to be user selectable as a fair solution. Is there something wrong with that?

Robert,
No one here really knows what tradeoffs the programmers behind Cupertino's closed doors had to make to bring iPad's closer in functionality to iPhones, which is what users appear to have wanted. Obviously those tradeoffs are being passed on to the end users who demand these features earlier than later. If you want to have a say in how they are developed, free for your venting is http://www.apple.com/feedback/ as well as constructive bug reporting is http://bugreporter.apple.com/ Until Apple releases some new feature, it really is important for users to consider those venues for asking for those features not to be used as part of a tradeoff. Maybe there is some stability tradeoff that had to be made. Regardless, unless users use the right channels for request, the likelihood for users to get what they want is nearly nil.

I honestly don't know. I have system sounds shut off. Hearing sounds while tapping keys was driving me batty so I turned them off.

a brody wrote:
Robert,
No one here really knows what tradeoffs the programmers behind Cupertino's closed doors had to make to bring iPad's closer in functionality to iPhones, which is what users appear to have wanted. Obviously those tradeoffs are being passed on to the end users who demand these features earlier than later. If you want to have a say in how they are developed, free for your venting is http://www.apple.com/feedback/ as well as constructive bug reporting is http://bugreporter.apple.com/ Until Apple releases some new feature, it really is important for users to consider those venues for asking for those features not to be used as part of a tradeoff. Maybe there is some stability tradeoff that had to be made. Regardless, unless users use the right channels for request, the likelihood for users to get what they want is nearly nil.

Thanks. Yes, we are all encouraging people to give Apple proper feedback to get this one overturned. Until you can hold the iPad up to your ear and make a phone call, there are certain things that simply make more sense to have different on the iPad... And a LOT of things are. Maximize the functionality of the feature set on each iOS device. I don't think I'd worry about such a switch on an Apple TV for instance...

Tamara, you've always had the option of turning off whatever you didn't want to hear...

Most of this just seems to be common sense. Many of us forget that there are other people who interact with their toys in ways that we don't. I suggest tolerance, but that doesn't seem to be the way a good number of us roll these days...

Bob

Robert, everyone is entitled to their opinion on whether the switch change is a good thing. That's fine. What is annoying is when statements are made (including by yourslef) like 'we are all encouraging people .. to get this one overturned', etc. We are not ALL doing anything.
Sorry, but just because a couple of hundred (maybe) people here are unhappy, doesn't mean it's a real issue. There are 10,000,000 others who apparently are OK with it, or at worst not bothered.
Do you even understand what the mute switch does? I'm not sure, especially when you start talking about 'making phone calls' and holding the iPad to your ear.
Let me ask you a question, do you ever use headphones or speaker docks with your iPad? In those circumstances, do you ever do any of the following: listen to music, or audiobooks, watch films or videos, go to a meeting and put on a presentation with sound? If you have ever done any of these, then you will know how incredibly annoying (at best) and, with headphones, disturbing it can be to all of a sudden have system bings and bongs for all sorts of things coming loudly through.
The way the switch is now, is the way it was originally intended to be before the iPad was released. The 'orientation lock' was always going to be a temporary thing.

I'm not interested in getting anything overturned. I'm all for uniformity between the different iDevices.