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Imagine laying in the bed on your side and trying to read a book.
by DrJokepu 16y ago
Imagine laying in the bed on your side and trying to read a book.
- jsz0 16y agoSure but you lock it once and you're all set. When the OP said frequently I envisioned him locking/unlocking more often than that. The thing is screen orientation only matters if the display is on. If the display is on the task switcher lock control is accessible. There would basically never be any use for the lock button when the display was off. Contrast that with audio playback where the display may be off and the task switcher audio controls inaccessible.
- bonaldi 16y ago"All set"? Hardly. You lock it once, but then you fidget and roll over. Oop, need to unlock. So now you have to double-press and try and work the task bar upside down to unlock, then chase the lock button round as the screen rotates to lock it again. Move again? Same daft dance. Compare to now, where you can unlock and relock the device while you roll, without looking at the screen.
- rendezvouscp 16y agoI don’t have an iPad so perhaps I’m missing something, but couldn’t you just rotate the device and leave the lock as is?
- mkramlich 16y agoI upgraded my iPhone 4 from 4.1 to 4.2 to see if they made any changes to orientation control on it. No dice. It still lets you lock it into Portrait orientation, or, leave it unlocked. No option to lock it into Landscape mode. Very annoying. Some websites and apps just work better in Landscape mode. Don't understand why it's so hard for them to allow that. Why only Portrait and not Landscape?
- CamperBob 16y agoNo option to lock it into Landscape mode Holy crap. Doesn't Apple drug-test their employees? Decisions like this make me think they don't use their own products, which I know very well isn't true. Just plain weird.