Mashable is reporting that a customer emailed Apple CEO asking if Wi-Fi syncing of his devices was on the horizon. Jobs replied in his usual terse manner: “Yep, someday.”
Steve also answered another email, this time pertaining to the removal of the “Hold” button on the iPhone’s on-screen phone controls.
Steve Jobs:
“Hold doesn’t do anything more than Mute.”
Apple of course, recently replaced the “hold” button with one that activates the new FaceTime video calling feature.
Now, as for Mr. Jobs’ response. It’s not entirely correct. In the official Apple users guide for iPhone OS 3.1, it stats that the after tapping the “hold” button “Neither party can hear the other.” As for the “mute” button it states that “You can still hear the caller, but the caller can’t hear you.”
However, if the user does hold down the “mute” button for a few seconds, the call is put on hold. No harm, no foul, I suppose. Apple just needs to better advertise this feature, so the handful of people who use hold, know where to find it now.
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