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iOS 4.2 GM: New Multitasking Bar, MobileMe Login Changes

Monday November 1, 2010 6:03 pm PDT by Arnold Kim

Image from deanostetto

Apple's new iOS 4.2 GM comes with a few additional changes. The multitasking bar now adds both Volume and Brightness controls for fast access. Also pictured is the new AirPlay button (on right).


4.2 GM on left, 4.1 on right

We're hesitant to read too much into this just yet, but there has been one interesting change in iOS 4.2 noted first by a tech company in Southern California. The new MobileMe account setup in iOS 4.2 GM (left) allows you to log into MobileMe settings using an Apple ID. Apple even offers a link to create a free Apple ID right there. Apple ID logins don't seem to work yet, so we're not sure what the intended purpose is. Apple may simple be linking Apple IDs and MobileMe accounts for a consolidated login. However, the a more fanciful interpretation is that Apple would allow any user access to some of the currently pay-only MobileMe features.
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CFreymarc
20 months ago
Nice incremental improvements. I'm sure some-one on here will complain 'bout them but I like it.
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Don Kosak
20 months ago
An expanded MobileMe with some services for free would help justify that giant datacenter Apple is building.

Google offers quite a few cloud based services integrated into Android. This might even the score a bit on the cloud services battle front.
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deanostetto
20 months ago
no credit for my iPad pic?
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wordoflife
20 months ago
I must say, I like the brightness control.
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TimUSCA
20 months ago
I wish Apple would put in quick access to the brightness on the iPhone... looks like the iPad is the only device with enough screen real estate to pull it off.

Guess I'll have to rely on SBSettings to get the job done, but I'd much rather have a real implementation of it.
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dscuber9000
20 months ago
That's EXCELLENT. I've been wanting quicker access to brightness for a while now. Here's hoping it somehow comes to iPhone, though. Not sure if there's enough space on it with the smaller screen.
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Anonymous Freak
20 months ago
I've been using just my AppleID to log in to MobileMe for years. (Since it was .Mac.)

I had my AppleID before I signed up for iTools, and when I signed up for iTools (which later became .Mac, then MobileMe,) I just used the same name as the "before the at" part of my account. It linked them, and I've been able to use just the "before the at" part to log in to MobileMe since before it was MobileMe.
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newagemac
20 months ago
They should be able to put that same multitasking interface with the brightness controls on the iPhone too. After all, the iPad is just a big iPod touch right?

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abhimat.gautam
20 months ago
Fingers crossed for a free or very cheap Mobile Me :D
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pmoeser
20 months ago
Surely the "free" Apple ID will be related to getting people to use it for FaceTime activations?
Like how you used to be able to get a free.Mac iChat account up until a few weeks ago
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