Honestly, what was Google thinking?
I like the ability to quickly put my phone into silent or vibe depending on the situation. I don't see why it's necessary to go through menus deep in settings to get partially what we had in 2.1 OS. The only thing I can think of was that some inexperienced users complained about missing phone calls because they confused silent with vibe. This is my greatest complaint to the update beside the fact that flash 10 is still not on my Droid.
Though don't let me make 2.2 sound like a bad update. So far it's not bad. Like the changes to the camera.
I'm with ya, I love 2.2 except for this absolutely stupid move to combine silent and vibrate. I dont know a single person who is even OK with this loss of functionality. I'm sorry but vibrate in NO WAY is "silent", especially in meetings. And there are hundreds of scenarios where I would only want vibrate and no sound.
Yeah yeah yeah "its there", but it really is a loss of functionality. No matter how you look at it, they removed the vibrate mode. Instead they have vibrate as a global option to either be on while on silent or on while not on silent... just plain dumb.