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Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of iOS 12 to Developers After Pulling Seventh Beta Earlier This Week [Update: Public Beta Available]
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Plus. If they put out a beta with zero bugs in it. What would we have to complain about?
YES! and that after all is what is important to so many people here it seems. Ok, not just here.
Gonna install public beta 5 on my iPad Pro and then wait for what will likely be public beta 7 to drop.
Well, that is a poor excuse since a lot of their software problems end up being ridiculously obvious issues hours after a public release and not strange fringe cases found weeks or months later. Also Apple has a beta program set up months in advance that gets into the "public" users hands and yet does not identify many glaring release issues.
Apple also controls their own hardware and has a limited range of product variations to target their software on so when Android or Windows can release on a much wider set of hardware and has greater initial quality and performance then many recent Apple OS releases, it just speaks volumes to the actual level of quality of Apple's development processes.
Lastly a trillion dollar valued company should not have a "small" development team incapable of delivering better initial release quality, not for something a prominent as the software required for the hardware that made them a trillion dollar company. I don't think this comes down to incompetent developers, but I think obviously there is a culture of poor executive leadership and overall denial at Apple where they think they are still producing the kind of quality they were known for back when Steve Jobs used to chew the heads off his development team when the color of an icon didn't come out right.
Excusing Apple for the plethora of iOS and Mac OS release bugs is nonsense. The company wants more money for their products and so my expectations of initial quality is, and should be, far higher then the average software company. If Apple wants to sell $300 phones full of bugs then my expectations will match the value of the phone. But sell me a $1300 phone and it is quickly broken or crippled by the next iOS patch or major release is inexcusable.
Well since they pulled the support for Multi Person FaceTime I hope they now devote their time fixing the next biggest feature of iOS 12, and that is screen time.
It is so buggy and easy to defeat, that I would be highly embarrassed for Apple if they released it like it is now.
Apple can do better than this.
It is so buggy and easy to defeat, that I would be highly embarrassed for Apple if they released it like it is now.
Apple can do better than this.
Wow 8th beta lol? I’m still on 5.
I see it’s 2.55GB on my iPX. I won’t have access to WiFi until tomorrow so hopefully this update is worth the wait.
I see it’s 2.55GB on my iPX. I won’t have access to WiFi until tomorrow so hopefully this update is worth the wait.
How big should the development team be for a install base of over a billion devices?
I had a delay of 15-20 seconds when launching apps on my iPhone X but it went away after about 30 minutes. The new iOS version notification icon wouldn't go away though.
Im sure it totally skipped their minds.
Yeah, how there they for releasing a beta software with bugs.
The highest beta number was iOS 11 beta 10. I wonder if this will beat it?
Clearly it’s not ready for the public.
