{"id":39139,"date":"2010-11-23T04:12:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T04:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/staff-testing-the-ios-42-beta-has-hated-this-new\/"},"modified":"2010-11-23T04:12:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T04:12:45","slug":"staff-testing-the-ios-42-beta-has-hated-this-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/staff-testing-the-ios-42-beta-has-hated-this-new\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>staff testing the iOS 4.2 beta has hated this new &ldquo;feature&rdquo; for the last two months. They just couldn&rsquo;t get used to it. Apple argues that this is to help developers and make multitasking better, but they provide a software lock, which kind of defeats their own argument. The other argument is that this unifies the iPad and iPhone&rsquo;s switches, but while in the iPhone it makes sense as mute\u2014because the iPhone is a telephone\u2014the iPad is a reader and a multimedia machine. Orientation lock makes sense, which is why people need\/want\/love the screen lock switch whenever they are in bed or the sofa. Now, users should click twice on the home button, slice their finger left and tap to lock the screen. Who the hell designed this bloody behavior? The developers of Mortal Kombat? Why not use the tap, tap, swipe left, swipe down, draw circle, double-click FINISH HIM! combo? Because that would be just as stupid as changing the widely known\u2014and widely beloved\u2014behavior of this switch to the mute function, which was already well served by the volume keys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5696733\/hey-apple-lets-get-the-screen-lock-back-to-the-ipad-switch\">Hey Apple, Let&rsquo;s Get the Screen Lock Back to the iPad Switch<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>staff testing the iOS 4.2 beta has hated this new &ldquo;feature&rdquo; for the last two months. They just couldn&rsquo;t get used to it. Apple argues that this is to help developers and make multitasking better, but they provide a software lock, which kind of defeats their own argument. The other argument is that this unifies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-39139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-abh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}