I'm curious why the downvote on this advice? it's absolutely sound advice. Main devices — those you require to get real work done — are not good candidates for pre-release software. There are reasons that banks and other industries are so slow to upgrade.... stability.
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I'm curious why the downvote on this advice? it's absolutely sound advice. Main devices — those you require to get real work done — are not good candidates for pre-release software. There are reasons that banks and other industries are so slow to upgrade.... stability.
Well, the point of betas is testing. They’re not final versions. I haven’t been on the beta program since iOS 8.
So two out of three software pulls were beta. Ok, not much to see here. Three public releases being pulled, then raise some flags.
I know a guy who might be interested in taking over software development....
I agree BUT the HomePod beta was bricking units which is pretty bad even for a beta release.
How about something simple like not asking me and my wife who we are multiple times per week when we try to add something to the shopping list (this has been a on again/off again problem for years). Yes, personal requests are enabled. “Siri, add apples to the shopping list.” “Who’s speaking?” You must work on the Siri team because I am blown away that you are asking these naive questions about Siri problems. I have two OG HomePods, two new gen large HomePods and 6 Minis. Other examples - I ask her to play my favorites and she won’t. I ask her to play classic rock. She starts playing the song one minute into the song for a few seconds, stops, and then starts at the beginning. She prematurely ends the song, starts playing about a minute into the next song for a few secs, then stops and starts it from the beginning. Over and over. These damn new gen large HomePods can’t stay paired to save their life. Just last night while I was fixing dinner, one of the large HomePods stopped playing while the other one continued. I have to unplug/replug these things at least once per week. I am an Apple fan boy and x,xxx,xxx stock holder. I want Apple to continue to succeed - wildly. But I am going to call them on their crap products when they don’t measure up! And Siri has been crap!
Says all of the software engineers that graduated in the lower half of the their class.
No, beta's are for catching corner cases. Bricking a device is not a corner case.
Yea, both the staff, huh.
Normally people do not do a bad job on purpose.
Usually they do a bad job because some idiot middle or upper management type does not have a clue about what is going on, or want to make brownie points by agreeing to schedules and budgets that are unrealistic.
Bricking a small number of devices that you couldn't cover in lab testing is a corner case. If every device were identical, you wouldn't need broad beta testing like this. You open beta testing outside the lab when you need to acknowledge that the ecosystem and the users have become complex. When you have an installed base of 10s or hundreds of millions, a few thousand is a corner case.
Says all the new grads who think their test scores mean they know everything.
Between this and all the bugs with iOS 18 it seems that Apple is getting sloppy with quality control. Their biggest selling point is being more reliable and stable than the competition. Maybe iOS 19 should be heavy on refining existing features and stability over trying to rush more bloat to the market.
I know a guy who might be interested in taking over software development....
All those tech companies fighting to hire him at any price once he left Apple. All that great work he's done since Apple Maps 12 years ago.
If Apple hired him back today it would be to produce Apple TV content-- all Forestall has really done since Apple is theater production.
Top of my class thank you. Like I said, too many people in this thread, you included apparently don't know much about software development.
I just assumed he wanted to pursue something different in life... It's not like he was hurting for income.
I know I'm ready for a career change.
My iPad Pro is used as a test bed, so I upgraded to beta. Beta by definition can have serious defects, that can brick devices. Alpha is usually an internal release and beta usually is a public release to catch any of the cases outside a lab.
Bad quality of beta releases still reflects poorly on the quality of software development process at Apple.
I could list at least a dozen reasons why Apple sucks in 2024, but anyone seriously using beta software stability as a measure of Apple's performance needs to give their head a wobble. Have we really become so entitled that we now expect betas not to break stuff? Yes it's true that Apple's mojo left the building a long time ago, and it won't be long before there's another legitimate cause for complaint, but this isn't one. You install betas you roll the dice. End of story 👍
It does not. The only thing that reflects on Apple quality is production releases.
If you graduated top of class, then why do you make excuses for poor software? And just where do you draw the line at poor software?
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A beta is one thing, but we still don't have iPadOS out - that's just bad.