Fellow developers – getting ready for iOS5 development? Then you’ll need to make sure you have Xcode 4.2 installed. However, there is a gotcha, and this one had me confused for a moment.

When you download Xcode 4.2 from the Mac App Store, don’t be disheartened when you launch Xcode and it is still version 4.1. What Apple doesn’t tell you is that you need to run the installer you just downloaded. Go ahead, it is right there in your Applications folder.

Good luck!

Dear Apple,

I am extremely disappointed that you have removed multitasking gestures for ipad on ios 5. They have become such an integral part of the interaction with my ipad, that ios 5 really feels like a downgrade, and through missing this feature my ipad now feels slow and cumbersome to use.

We all know that ipad is perfectly capable of these gestures, and so i feel betrayed by you that you would remove this feature, in a way that i can’t get it back, thus forcing me to buy new hardware just for a feature that i used to have anyway!

Come on Apple, play fair. We (the world) spend a fortune with you – but only when you treat us like valued customers.

The Scatterpic Team

*** update: multitasking gestures are back for ipad 1 in the latest update to iOS5. I guess sometimes they do listen to us!