iOS '4.2' - the answer to the question of iPad, iLife and iEverything?

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 16 November 2010 20:42

Your IT - Mobility

With Apple potentially unleashing an iTunes cloud service, the entire Beatles collection, iOS 4.2, a cure for cancer, a way to transmute lead into gold, and the explanation of the significance of 4.2 as the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything, the journey to the iOS 4.2 side of the force is nearly complete.

iOS 4.2. It's the mobile operating system that has captured the public's imagination, even as Google sends tweets reminding the world that Android OS 2.3 is soon to pop out of the oven, guarded by gingerbread men reminiscent of Shrek's feisty character, Gingy.

Hugely awaited, hotly anticipated and breathlessly desired, iOS 4.2 for the iPad is, thus far, technology's biggest tease, especially with iPhone and iPod Touch owners having now had access to iOS 4.x features (and for some, deficiencies) for what seems like aeons, what with its 'that page' status.

iOS 4.2 promises to fix iOS 4.x ills some iPhone 3G and 3GS users have experienced, with an SMS typing speed slowdown issue with long messages since iOS 4.0 and not fixed in 4.1 being the only issue I've noticed in iOS 4.1 on an iPhone 3GS.

It will also infuse Apple's mystical choice of the iPad's freshly upgraded digital soul, numbered '4.2', delivering an operative answer to the question of the iPad's raison d'être, its new universe of possibility and the absolute amazingness of everything that entails.

But, as those funny critters like to say in those V Energy Drink commercials from an alternate universe where they actually advertise Apple's iPads instead, 'It's your iPad's 7 months since release mid-afternoon new OS wake-up call' and 'It all starts with 4.2'.

We all know the iPad will shortly delight with unified email, access at last to folders for long-needed simple app organisation through the iPad's explosion of apps, simplified access to on-screen brightness, volume and playback controls while also giving easy access to Apple's version 1.0 experience of a super simple, task manager/task bar for Apple's controlled multitasking model.

If Apple's latest is the answer to the cosmic question, which in a 'dotcom' twist is presented to us as iOS '4.2', then iOS must surely be on the light side of the force, with everyone else on the dark side.

A journey through an alternate reality set a long time ago in a galaxy far far away awaits on page two, strictly for your entertainment as iOS 4.2 becomes a synonym for endless wait, although it's one which may finally be broken tomorrow during Apple's mysterious, potentially Beatles-bringing iTunes announcement.

For adventures in iOS 4.2's training'¦ set to a well-known and rebellious theme, please read on to page two!