You mean that you wish that Public Beta program didn't exist at all? You're not forced to install Beta software if you don't want an unstable release. It's meant for people who find it fun to test new things before release.
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Apple Aiming to Improve Software Quality With iOS 16 by Encouraging Beta Testers to Submit Bugs
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Over 100 years of education!
Yes, but you don't know imperial measures. Trust me, if we were here together I could demonstrate that you don't know imperial, sadly if I were to test you on a forum most would probably DuckDuckGo the answers and pretend they knew them. You don't know the imperial system, only two people I have ever tested in person did and one was over "72", the Westminster clowns have failed for decades to finish the jobs they begin and as such people now have no idea that they don't know measurements.
Both incorrect, anyone under the age of 70 who was taught imperial measures in a public school was at a school that broke the rules. You are (as most do) mis remembering. In the case you really were taught it in a public school then congratulations! You are entitled to sue the school for compensation!
I've been installing beta releases for years and have more than 20 bugs reported. Some of them got fixed long after the official release, others have never been resolved, for instance have you tried zooming in on a PDF in Safari? Yep, jumps to a random page, has been like that for the last 5 years. I am an apple fanboi but their quality has been gradually becoming a huge pile of cr*p and they don't bother looking at those bug reports.
They got big problem now introduce the ipad os . then wannabe pro only and mess up macos with stages ? Lol we have "spaces" like normal linux flavour . The more os they introduce they more test need to be done , and currently we saw more big mess .The proc how many version m1 and it will replicated to m2 ? Their hardware phone and tab should be limit to 2 size only but now ? Mini , normal , pro ,pro max , mini tablet, air tablet , budget tablet, pro tablet?. Who want to maintain all those ? If non outsourcing , i dont know how big their mess.
That's what everybody was saying about iOS 15...and 14, and 13.
Having a strong QA team would already be a good start.
Agreed here. Battery is my biggest issue right now, but that's to be expected on a beta 1, and even then it's not terrible. Other than that, nothing that's been a dealbreaker. Mostly just minor things!
Also creating a physical building at their HQ called Dev Center seems reassuring too...if you really want to talk to someone, now you can.
I have been submitting bugs and suggestions quite often over the last few years. I have never received a response or have any bugs been squashed or suggestions implemented. This lack of engagement or even acknowledgement puts people off as it feels these submissions are going into a black hole.
It is even more frustrating when the make a change that nobody asked for but still ignoring bugs that have been present for who knows how long. I understand that they probably receive many bug reports and cannot respond to them all, but at least make a list available to see what bugs are being worked on so we don't have to report them and know that they are aware of whatever issues have been raised.
It is even more frustrating when the make a change that nobody asked for but still ignoring bugs that have been present for who knows how long. I understand that they probably receive many bug reports and cannot respond to them all, but at least make a list available to see what bugs are being worked on so we don't have to report them and know that they are aware of whatever issues have been raised.
Banana principle - product matures at customer’s site.
In case of Apple and their OS it’s even worse, it‘s never allowed to mature, they break it over and over again.
macOS is the new Vista, and will be a ad’Venture(a) to use it.
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Nope. SPMG Primary Mathematics and Heinemann Mathematics reference cm, meters, and miles in the workbooks, work cards, textbooks, and teachers resources packs. Heinemann Mathematics 7, and 8 for first year secondary school reference kilometres which is about when we started learning kilometres in addition to miles.
Scottish Heinemann Mathematics and New Heinemann Mathematics(England) seem to only reference kilometres, if you learned from those texts you would be under twenty. Though I don’t yet have a full set of teachers resources for the newer stuff to check.
Because the Beta Program is made for people who like to do the testing as a hobby, but would not necessarily like (or have the qualifications for) doing it as a full-time job.
It may seem weird for some, but there are people who like playing around with their computers.
I don’t doubt you, and I’m sure that’s frustrating. The problem is not enough people are also reporting it. Software development is like an emergency room triage, and the issues with lots of bug reports and feedback will get on the radar. Hopefully these prompts will help, but I don’t know they will in your case since it doesn’t cause a crash.
EU should tell Apple enough screwing europeans,( cant speak for others I live in Europe)
stop to new software every year
2 year hardware warranty
repair costs, no more than 1/3 of the product when it was new( actually a real repair don't want refurbishment)
any eu politicians in this forum should listen to me and copy that up higher in Belgium
stop to new software every year
2 year hardware warranty
repair costs, no more than 1/3 of the product when it was new( actually a real repair don't want refurbishment)
any eu politicians in this forum should listen to me and copy that up higher in Belgium
When you sell over 200 million iPhones a year, it’s impossible to replicate and test for all the real-world combinations of hardware and software (routers, networks, carriers, ISPs, apps, locations, even family sharing across continents, etc…).
What does that have to do with this article?
Yup, got one of these after my iPhone crashed while trying to set a wallpaper (apparently this new Lock Screen thing is internally known as PosterBoard)
For what it’s worth it’s been the only crash in over 72 hours so far
For what it’s worth it’s been the only crash in over 72 hours so far
I have been a beta-tester for Apple for years and years, and it's my overwhelming sense that for all the time I've put into reporting bugs that they've either not cared (I very rarely see any acknowledgement that they're looking into them) or not had sufficient resources allocated to fix them. It's actually rare to see anything I've reported actually ever get fixed - the very same bugs just get carried over from release to release. I've sadly watched their software quality go down and these days I just given up - I ignore all of their beta-test emails and just wait until their software (macOS, imparts, iPadOS) is on it's last version before upgrading to it. Don't get me wrong - I'd still rather be in the Apple camp than the Windows camp, but I'm done pouring endless hours of my life into Apple's bottomless pit of thanklessness trying to help them out.
Obviously Apple has QA, but QA is only as good as the test cases they write and use; Apple's test cases can't account for every single interaction. Having beta testers out there trying the software in ways Apple's test cases didn't expect means the public release will be even better.
Seeing that today is 101 days until September 20th, a likely date of a new release - I really want to be a beta tester this year. I would love to use my primary device for this, and maybe from around august.
Or maybe, I should just backup my iphone and become a beta tester already in july ? Join the fun ?
Or maybe, I should just backup my iphone and become a beta tester already in july ? Join the fun ?
Then what was the point of Public Beta? 🙄
Yeah, yeah… they’re doing MORE to train the public to submit bug reports, but they should have done it from the beginning if they’re going to do public beta.
Yeah, yeah… they’re doing MORE to train the public to submit bug reports, but they should have done it from the beginning if they’re going to do public beta.