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Apple Releases OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 8
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Could you be any more incorrect? One of the things people use to criticize Windows is that it uses TOO MUCH legacy code and is, in essence, TOO backward-compatible. That's the exact opposite of what you just said.
Wow, touched a sore spot, eh? hahahahaha. Ummm, no, not incorrect either. Besides, that wasn't the point of my first post.....can you read any worse? It's still not Apple's job to make their OS work with others third-party programs. It is the same, in that regard, to Widows. It's not Microsoft's job to do that either.
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Ummmm, no. It's not their job to do that. That's your job as a developer. It's your software, not theirs.
Check out what deprecation is all about, and why it's the app vendor's responsibility to keep up with current events.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation
It is Apple's job to keep APIs that they have published as "stable", stable and compatible. They do this. Many developers however use APIs that aren't published as such. They do this knowing that they may change and that in such a case they will probably have to update their app.
Apple has both kinds of APIs: stable and non-stable (where by stable I don't mean they crash but they are subject to change.) This is why there are developer previews: so app developers can test their apps with new OS releases (major and minor) before the OS ships so they can ensure that they have a compatible version out on time if necessary. This is also why there is always at least two weeks between the developer release and the public release.
Also, some stable APIs do change in ways that, if you follow the recommended way to use them, don't impact you. But if you use them in a way that isn't quite the right way, that may impact your app.
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10.6 was a mess when it was released too. Apple has never released a solid version of the OS on the first round.
Weird, I've had no problems with scrolling since DP7 (DP6 was virtually unusable because of scrolling bug)
Well, Apple has a history of deprecating APIs. And I think its a good thing, because it keeps the API clean and lets it evolve. Its not like API gets deprecated from one day to the other one - it takes years and you are forewarned early enough so you can change your code.
It also includes iTunes Radio and Internet Radio with the update from Preview 7 to Preview 8
Dual pane is easily mimiced. Drag a tab off the finder and let it go on the desktop and it creates a new finder window at that location. Its not quite teh same as a dual pane, but as I said, just stick with it if you like it. Forklift does a good job IMHO.
Files can be dragged and dropped on the tabs themselves too for copying between locations.
Happy to report that even after restart, this build fixes a nasty UI bug in Circus Ponies Notebook that I had been experiencing with previous builds.
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Because that are the responsibilities of third party developers. You do not expect the OS platform itself to adapt to all kinds of weird third party app behavior, do you?
Actually thats why beta software exists in the first place, to give Microsoft the needed time to adapt its applications before Mavericks is released and avoid users from suffering incompatibilities. Now is the time for Microsoft to sort out problems.
Nice - they finally fixed the delay when dragging a link or picture from Safari to the desktop.
What sleep problem. I've had ML on about 40 home and work computers bad have no issues with sleep, so I'm curious what has been going on for folks
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Few consumers in the general market will have non Apple SSDs. So no, they probably aren't in a rush to add something that encourages the .1% to do something they would rather you didn't.
Some of you with strange issues that don't seem to affect anyone else then watch them mysteriously go away is most likely due to getting your systems "purged" with the DP update. God only knows what 3rd party crap some of you people install/uninstall between updates. Not to mention the hacks and tweaks.
I have yet to see evidence of Apple 'breaking things left and right'. One notable case: MPlayerX (which still crashes on Mavericks). I don't recall the specific details, but someone looked at the code and found out that its a latent bug in the window initialisation code - it was using size parameters before they were properly initialised. In such cases the values are often undefined per specification. Incidentally, it worked on previous versions of OS X, but on Mavericks the component initialisation order was changed and the value was zero, which results in division through zero. This is a very nice illustration of a bug in the application code, which does not get detected, because it uses some undefined convention/feature/anything which by coincidence happens to work. Bugs like these are NOT Apple's fault.
Or if you want a more close to life example - this is like complaining about illegal parking ticket by saying 'but I have parked here for years and never got a ticket!'. Well, it was illegal all the time, just nobody bothered to check it
Seems like you knew exactly what he meant.Pardon the question, but how can a wallpaper be 27"....?
I guess you meant the resolution is double of 2560x1440, which with apple mean a 27" monitor?
Nope. 10.8 had nine releases and it looks like we'll be about the same this time around.
They could release september 30 and october 7 and still have three weeks before public release by the end of October.