Interesting thing I noticed today that I hadn’t before about the supposed silly decision of Apple’s to make the rotation lock switch into a mute toggle. I use my iPad day in and day out for all sorts of things, and was pretty upset about the switch from rotation lock to mute in 4.2. But in actual use, I’ve learned something revealing:

Prior to 4.2, there was no way to mute the iPad without unlocking it (hardware volume controls only work once the device is unlocked). Unfortunately, unlocking it makes noise.

The hardware mute switch makes sense on the iPad because there is a purpose to using it with the device in sleep mode and when awake. There is no purpose in the hardware rotation lock when your iPad is asleep – what effect would it have on a blank screen?

If you haven’t heard, Nexon Mobile yesterday released a single-player iOS port of Maple Story – today a rather nice tipster has informed me that about half of the audio files inside of this port actually come directly from my Maple Story Soundtrack, noticeable by examining the track tags from the MP3 files contained in the app’s bundle. I’m both flattered and surprised that the developers chose to use the MP3 files available here for their project.

Kudos to Nexon for releasing an iOS Maple Story – I hope it does well for them! I haven’t played Maple Story in years myself, but I’m sure lots of people are out there now enjoying the iOS game with my rips in it. ;)