I also noticed that. It seems very un-Apple to "shout" like that in any of its communications. (Not that I am a developer or anything). Usually I associate that with cheaper brands.
"Sale! Sale! Sale!"
"Come on down today!"
"Limited offer!"
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Apple Preparing to Begin Seeding OS X 10.8.2 Builds for Testing
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I also noticed that. It seems very un-Apple to "shout" like that in any of its communications. (Not that I am a developer or anything). Usually I associate that with cheaper brands.
"Sale! Sale! Sale!"
"Come on down today!"
"Limited offer!"
Try managing thousands of computers. Apple is the only vendor we work with that does things like this. It makes no sense because it forces us to be bleeding edge constantly.
That's not a lot of code to justify a separate 10.8.2 branch. Sorry, but integrating Web Services to interact with Facebook is very lightweight.
Because that will take significantly longer and they want to fix as many major issues for as many users as possible using a quickly released .1 release...
Just because a grid of app icons with 1-level folders that we know from iOS was designed for a touchscreen, does not mean that something similar can be implemented successfully in the point-and-click OS X environment.
I used to have an Application stack in Snow Leopard. Since Lion, I've used Launchpad with no qualms or complaints.
Yes, I got an invite as a developer. I even emailed them and asked if my invitation may be given to a friend who is a developer and could use it. No reply.
Of course I realize we'll get the seed, I was referencing someone's comment that developer's won't and only certain consumers would. That, my friends, is entirely incorrect
You are, I completely agree with you.
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I will not change my old Snow Leopard for ANY new fancy OSX!! Period!
Good luck with that route
Apple is smoking crack with that too. I don't like to read on my computer, but there are times where it would be a nice feature. My Kindle App and even the B&N reader app allow this, and keep your pages synced across devices.
Honestly though, I still wouldn't do iBooks. iBooks really sucks compared to the competition in both selection, price, and device options. I'm all about Amazon sales, discounts, promos, and special offers.... (B&N and Apple... take note... there is a reason why you can't compete with them... just saying)
Please fix 'Notes' it works but is very unstable syncing across multiple machines and iOS devices. One list was working fine for me, but you can now add notes into folders, great idea, but had major freak out and nearly lost stuff.
Notes should also build in some encryption for passwords and usernames etc. so it can be used a bit more privately and secure.
Notes should also build in some encryption for passwords and usernames etc. so it can be used a bit more privately and secure.
That said that 10.8.1 is being seeded to developers... The article says 10.8.2 is being seeded to users. According to other people who replied to me, this is part of the AppleSeed program, which is interesting - I didn't know about this! http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/0...lar-joes-pre-release-access-to-mac-os-x-lion/
This somehow looks to me like developers lost interest in the dev previews of Mac OS X. I remember when previous systems came out, everybody was waiting impatiently on seeing a glimpse of a dot release. "Hope they fix this", "Hope they include that".
I think that many (not all) developers share the same thoughts: ML is ok. Not great, but ok. But why should they bother anyway.
I think that many (not all) developers share the same thoughts: ML is ok. Not great, but ok. But why should they bother anyway.
That's because it's a 'simulator', not and 'emulator'. An emulator is what would be required to run existing apps because they're compiled for ARM and translates each line of code before it is run.
A simulator is what developers can use for development because to run an application in the simulator, it is actually compiled as x86 code (what a desktop machine uses), rather than ARM. This means it's designed to run on a desktop machine, hence why it's fast. Android development uses an emulator, which is why the Android emulator is much slower than the iOS simulator. An emulator is more likely to give accurate results however.
There's nothing abnormal to working on multiple branches of software releases. 10.8.1 is probably in a feature freeze and now any new features or "bug" fixes that require more important changes in the code that can impact functionality are being moved to the 10.8.2 branche instead.
This is pretty much normal practices in the industry, where you have your current branch where you continue actively working on adding features and doing bigger fixes and clean ups and your beta branch that keeps getting some smallish fixes in order to get a release out.
I don't quite understand why you're shocked by this.
Im using Developer version of 10.8.1 with the Facebook integration, and Twitter integration for Notifications, but have yet to receive one single notification whatsoever, despite being logged into Facebook / Twitter.
It would be cool to run them an use the mouse pad on my MBP(Which is Multi touch)
Yes, pedantic would be the polite way to describe it. These emails are written by software managers excited about their work, not marketing or PR managers, and emailed to a pre-selected group of beta testers. Believe me when one receives one of these emails the only thing read is "new version," and "download." No one is lollygagging, counting punctuation marks or otherwise over-analyzing the message.
Already discussed in the thread. FB is available as a separate install, if they want to expand testing beyond devs they can just make that available to the other testing groups. At some point they'll have a bigger FB beta release, but it's silly to assume any particular build is intended just for that purpose.
I just downloaded 10.8.1 now, guess it was in gm
Is it just me or did Lion remember that the app was full screen after closing. I'm getting pretty fed up of the massive fitt's law issue in going from the bottom of the screen to the top to click those arrows everytime i reopen.
Is it just me or did Lion remember that the app was full screen after closing. I'm getting pretty fed up of the massive fitt's law issue in going from the bottom of the screen to the top to click those arrows everytime i reopen.
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