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Apple Seeds First iOS 8.1 Beta to Developers

Erastopic said:
That would make sense, yes.

Also if they plan to have a October event, I would bet that is 1 week before the release of both Yosemite and 8.1 to go along with it.

9to5Mac also reported some months ago that after the release of iOS 8, Apple would take many engineers to help finish Yosemite in time with the Fall release.

Edit: Similar to what they did when iOS 7 was under development.
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I wonder who would really be working on iOS 8.1 then in the meantime (if it's to launch around the same time).
 
The release notes are not explicit (per the usual), but here are my guesses:

  • :apple:Pay support
  • Yosemite support
  • Bug fixes

iPads announced on October 21st. iOS 8.1 released October 29th.

To be clear, I do not believe we will see any :apple:Pay functionality until the actual release date of 8.1.
 
Patriot24 said:
The release notes are not explicit (per the usual), but here are my guesses:

  • :apple:Pay support
  • Yosemite support
  • Bug fixes

iPads announced on October 21st. iOS 8.1 released October 29th.
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If people are smart, they won't rush this update... but hey, people are people
 
C DM said:
I wonder who would really be working on iOS 8.1 then in the meantime (if it's to launch around the same time).
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The workforce they needed to create 8.0 is not the same that they need for x.1 or x.x.1 releases, besides I think Apple will leave their best iOS engineers on the iOS team.

I think the workforce Apple requested by the iOS team is most likely to complete the UI, such as icons, buttons, app interfaces and so on.

Remember, last year iOS 7 was the new big thing, this year Apple seem more invested with Yosemite considered it's overhaul.

Edit: Who knows, maybe thats why iOS 8 had so many bugs. OS X had the best iOS engineers :) (Irony)
 

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Erastopic said:
The workforce they needed to create 8.0 is not the same that they need for x.1 or x.x.1 releases, besides I think Apple will leave their best iOS engineers on the iOS team.

I think the workforce Apple requested by the iOS team is most likely to complete the UI, such as icons, buttons, app interfaces and so on.

Remember, last year iOS 7 was the new big thing, this year Apple seem more invested with Yosemite considered it's overhaul.
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Perhaps. Certainly last year and the previous years they needed more time for x.1 releases. And iOS 8 is still a rather big release under the hood, in some ways even bigger than iOS 7, and certainly no better in stability for many (if not worse), so it's hard to say that they won't necessarily need more people working on it and more time. It almost seems like the 8.1 and following releases will be almost more like 8.0.x bug fix releases with some new features (rather than a whole lot of code stability and performance improvements that are typical of x.1 releases).
 
zachkolk said:
Hopefully notifications won't hang for a whole minute now. I haven't heard a lot of people complain about this, but I and a couple family members have all experienced notifications that will hang at the top of the screen until manually dismissed or waiting for a minute.
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I've found I can just tap my Home button to dismiss the hung notification.
 
“iOS 8 has had a rough start”
The rough start actually started w/ the not-so “Live Stream event”, and has been a bumpy ride since. Apple will work it out as it always has. :)
 
Erastopic said:
The workforce they needed to create 8.0 is not the same that they need for x.1 or x.x.1 releases, besides I think Apple will leave their best iOS engineers on the iOS team.

I think the workforce Apple requested by the iOS team is most likely to complete the UI, such as icons, buttons, app interfaces and so on.

Remember, last year iOS 7 was the new big thing, this year Apple seem more invested with Yosemite considered it's overhaul.
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Actually, I think you have this backwards. iOS 7 added very little in the way of functionality, as it was mainly a UI refresh. iOS 8 is loaded with new technologies, APIs, and functionality.

2013:
  • Mavericks = Technology/Feature Overhaul
  • iOS 7 = Design Refresh

2014:
  • Yosemite = Design Refresh
  • iOS 8 = Technology/Feature Overhaul

Much like Apple's hardware, it appears that their software releases the past two years have followed a "tick, tock" schedule.
 
Please fix the copy and paste bug. Where the screen magically starts scrolling up.

And the hanging notifications.

And the weird rotating animation during videos.

And the crashes.


(6+)
 
I hope they are gonna improve Wi-Fi stability in iPhone 6 Plus! Nothing too bad, but mine drops the signal every now and then and for a few minutes it wouldn't find any Wi-Fi network nearby :confused::confused::confused:
 
C DM said:
Perhaps. Certainly last year and the previous years they needed more time for x.1 releases. And iOS 8 is still a rather big release under the hood, in some ways even bigger than iOS 7, and certainly no better in stability for many (if not worse), so it's hard to say that they won't necessarily need more people working on it and more time. It almost seems like the 8.1 and following releases will be almost more like 8.0.x bug fix releases with some new features (rather than a whole lot of code stability and performance improvements that are typical of x.1 releases).
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Very true. For regular iOS users, iOS 8 seems like a small update with small new features but iOS 8 has become what iOS 7 should have been and maybe Apple didn't have enough time to really finish iOS 8 as they planned.

Think about it, iOS 8 is a little more than 1 week old and already they have planned 3 x.1 updates? The upcoming updates will surely finish what was actually supposed to be iOS 8 to begin with.
 
carrrrrlos said:
“iOS 8 has had a rough start”
The rough start actually started w/ the not-so “Live Stream event”, and has been a bumpy ride since. Apple will work it out as it always has. :)
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From 9to5Mac. I'm an Apple fanboy, but I did chuckle at this.
 

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