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What I can't understand is why you can't choose this in Settings if you want it as a Mute button or Orientation Lock button. Why not make this a CP setting? People who like it the way it is can go through the extra steps to activate it, while new users have it default as mute.

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Because then, if you handed your iPad to another person, they wouldn't be able to instantly know everything about how to use it if they had used one previously. Apple goes to a lot of effort to be consistent.

This argument might be valid if they had done this from the get-go. But now you're creating confusion from 3.0 to 4.0.

I think that it's a pretty valid argument for why it isn't a user-configurable option, but yes, it doesn't quite make sense.

Go back to Linux, this is iOS.

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