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Apple iOS 4.2 Hands-On
adeelarshad82 writes "Apple's highly-anticipated iOS 4.2 update for iPad, iPhone, and the iPod touch finally arrived this morning, along with an update for Apple TV. The update includes Airplay, which enables wireless streaming of video, photos, and music from your iOS device to Apple TV. AirPlay is an exciting new development for iOS device owners who also have Apple TVs. As long as the devices are on the same wireless network, they automatically detect each other. AirPlay also lets users multitask while streaming video to an Apple TV. Unfortunately though, AirPlay is a one-way street. Users cannot stream something they rented on Apple TV to their iOS device. The iOS 4.2 update also included the introduction of AirPrint, which is the wireless printing solution for the iPad. (The ability to print to a printer attached to a local PC or Mac was dropped from the release, however.) Other minor changes Apple squeezed into this update were: better Word document fidelity in iWork, multi-tasking, and Game Center."
apple acknowledging they fucked up again by putting in a status bar when they said that they wouldn't, is a major change.
I don't care personally, I don't own apple devices or buy apple products.
I'm just saying that this whole "we don't like task managers" and just implemented the framework for one, is quite a bit disingenuous.
It's grim what it takes to be called a musician these days.
I would say that only pretend musicians will consider native MIDI support on their iPhones to be "huge".