I always thought GM referred to the pirated version of the final release that came out before something actually went on sale...
Half joking...
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Apple Releases OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 7
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I always thought GM referred to the pirated version of the final release that came out before something actually went on sale...
Half joking...
You want an OS named for a maximum security federal prison?
Knowing Apple, it makes perfect sense to me
So I'm downloading this bloated update just for new wall papers?
What makes you say this update is full of bloat?
So I'm downloading this bloated update just for new wall papers?
Yes, that's right. Apple have been spending all its time perfecting its background image catalogue.
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Nine releases. Only four were labeled as DP with the others labeled as updates, but still nine releases.
And completely unable to detect others, as witnessed by the various "WiFi doesn't work on the new Apple xxx" and "Apple testing patch for yyyy problem on new Apple zzzz" threads.
And, wouldn't you think, that if Apple's automatic testing were so good -- you'd never see a bug in a DP that needed to be fixed for a Release Candidate? Hell, if it's that good then there's no need for DPs and RCs - just ship it raw....
Automated testing is an important part of QA - but it's no substitute for letting lots of real users use the software in their real lives.
I've known many using Safari on Mavericks, nobody's mentioned it to me.
No, GM can still be tested and re-released if there are serious showstoppers found. Apple re-released a GM a while ago because of a bug. Final release means it's the one that is going to be on the machines for good, no more updates.
Unit tests has nothing to do with GM process. Apple'd use them during any type of development since OS X is huge.
DPs do have bug fixes, that's a fact. GM just appears to have more bug fixes because Apple often takes a long time before the last DP and the GM, so they have more time to fix them.
Yes, very glad this is fixed. I have no problem mirroring my MacBook Air screen via Apple TV again. I did not realize how much I used this until DP6 broke it for me.
Safari is running much smoother and the proclaimed "smooth" scrolling on the retina MacBooks is actually smooth now. I was scrolling through iPhoto and it for once kept up without lagging behind trying to load the photos.
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How can you have multiple GMs ?
If you re-release, the GM isn't the GM, the new GM might be the GM, or it might be replaced by a newer GM, if that GM is OK otherwise that GM isn't the GM and there's a new GM. Rinse, repeat.Why not call them release candidates? The final RC that is actually sent to the customers is the GM.
It's mutual - no money exchanged hands.
Google names their latest Android OS 'Kit Kat', as sort of an advertisement for Hershey, and Hershey puts Green Androids on their Kit Kat wrappers (and probably in TV commercials).
Both parties are benefited.
Now if only the surfers around the Mavericks could get Apple tattoos.....
Not sure if this has been covered (somewhere) yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OKOrkLxOBoY
It is kinda funny, and like the Samsung ads, I feel that (as a bit of an Apple fan) I'm always having the last laugh with all the desperate anti-Apple advertising and mocking of Apple's own (current) style of advertising.
Another example - here in Australia, every time I click on a mobile phone or Apple article on the local online newspaper, I'm presented with a massive "iChanged" advert from Samsung, which completely surrounds the article I'm reading. But as I loathe Samsung (Samedung?), I tend to get more annoyed these days when their advertising diarrhoea lands on my screen, over and over again.
The more recent Windows Mobile ad, though, had me in stitches. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19vR1GldRI&list=PLB8CF84DDCB5D3F5B&index=43
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(Kit Kat Android Ad which spoofs Jonny Ive's introductions to Apple products)
I love that - very funny. It spoofs Apple, but in a much more adult way than Samsung's childish ads.
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Because it has Wallpapers?
I'm exaggerating about the bloat but seriously... What developer input does Apple need regarding "wallpapers"?
These could have been saved for the GM.
Because it has Wallpapers?
I'm exaggerating about the bloat but seriously... What developer input does Apple need regarding "wallpapers"?
Historically this is always the time that apple includes the wallpapers, I don't know why but this path to release seems to always reach the end once the wallpapers are included.
