When iOS 4.2 gets rolled out to iPad users sometime in the coming weeks, the button on the side that has until now prevented the screen from swapping between portrait and landscape will become a mute switch, just like it is on the iPhone. However, since this is clearly a software-managed control rather than being hard-wired, some users were hoping that this might be configurable somewhere in the settings.
Unfortunately, Steve Jobs has made it clear to a 9to5Mac reader via email that no such use
