With the introduction of the iPhone 4 and it’s awesome multitasking power, all of us iPad owners were asking, where is the love Steve?!
Well the love was packaged up and left for November sometime. Want the multitasking now? Want it on our iPad? Well now is your chance.
I know most of us out there don’t want to or don’t have the 99 dollars to shell out for a developer account with Apple. With that said, what if it were 11 dollars? Would you pay that? I would and did!
Check it out:
MacGeekBlog has launched a site allowing you to register your iPad it’s UDID with them. It takes up to 24 hours but after it goes through you can install 4.2 on your iPad!
For me it took less than an hour for the entire process. Great stuff. 6 dollars for the UDID registration and 5 for 4.2 beta.
It’s that easy. Are you jumping for joy at the tip that you can actually use your iPad the way it should of been used out of the box?
Michael says
I am going to have to do this!
Jason Powell says
Or if you’re part of the CITRT community you can join my iPad beta test team and get all the betas for free without needing to submit your UDID 😉
45 of us are kicking the tires so far … and yes, it’s what the iPad should have had out of the gate IMHO.
John Saddington says
oh, that’s sweet. how do people join?
Jason Powell says
I just put a link to signup page on http://citrt.org > scroll to the bottom of page under ‘Other Resources’ … prefer that folks would have some sort of tie to church and technology as a staff or volunteer role … but if not just ask nicely and I’ll prob let ya in anyways 😉
Community++
Geek for Him says
Yes do let us know, I would love to be part of this! I love to hear more about it!
Michael says
I’m in!
justinwoulard says
You can also download the beta from various places for free and save the five bucks.
Geek for Him says
Yes you could illegally. It’s not legal to do this unless you are part of the Developer program or part of a larger beta program sponsored by someone who has already paid the 99 dollars.
benj miller says
I would feel like a sucker paying extra money for such a simple thing.
“To add copy and paste to your iPhone, please go to these three sites and pay a total of $9.95.”
Just my thought (okay – I’m a droid fan-boy)
Geek for Him says
To get something before the date and to save yourself 80 dollars you would feel like a sucker?
That doesn’t make sense at all. Droid or not.
By the way, why do ALL droid commercials lack a human?
Tim Owens says
Hmmm, I didn’t pay anything. I downloaded the 4.2 beta from a website (let’s not get into the legality of a beta being posted online when an approved developer is charging $5 for it) and did a option + restore from the ipsw. Never had to activate which meant it didn’t care about my UDID.
Users should not while it is quite stable there are a few apps that just simply crash on 4.2 right now and one of them is Youversion which makes Tim a sad sad man. Oh well, price you pay for living on the edge…
Jimmy King says
Personal opinion: unless you’re actually using it for development, iOS 4.2 is too buggy to be worth the time, and, in this case, money.
Jason Powell says
Beta3 has fixed almost all of the minor issues I was having. There’s no way I’d give up 4.2 at this point. It’s finally made me actually like using the iPad. Ymmv