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Apple Seeds Fourth iOS 9.2 Beta to Developers and Public Beta Testers

beanbaguk said:
Not good enough and a very short-sighted reply.

While I agree it's an obsolete device, I bet you wouldn't be saying the same if it were your MacBook. My one for example is an August 2013 MacBook Pro retina. Technically, that's more than 2 years old and it still runs everything perfectly and I expect it to do so for another 3-4 years. If it slowed to a crawl after 3-4 years because of the OS, I would be pretty pissed off with Apple.

Apple should simply block updates to older devices that simply cannot handle the demands of a new OS. At the end of the day iOS 8 is still perfectly capable and there is no real need for iOS 9 on the 4S. On top of that they were still selling the 4S a year ago through official channels so as a user, I would expect a minimum shelf life of at least 3-4 years from the point of purchase.
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Incomparable to a MacBook. The mobile field is newer, and has just now gotten out of the "over 100% improvement year over year" phase.
 
C DM said:
It will be out when Apple releases it. It's not like it's late or anything like that.
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Obviously there's no official timetable, but as software gets to later and later beta versions there's often a shorter amount of time till the next version is released because there's fewer and fewer problems that need to be fixed.
 
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motulist said:
Obviously there's no official timetable, but as software gets to later and later beta versions there's often a shorter amount of time till the next version is released because there's fewer and fewer problems that need to be fixed.
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Given the pretty much weekly release of betas since even the first one for this next update, it doesn't really seem to follow that type of an approach.
 
C DM said:
Given the pretty much weekly release of betas since even the first one for this next update, it doesn't really seem to follow that type of an approach.
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But that's exactly why it seems so strange that now there's been a much longer since the latest version.
 
motulist said:
But that's exactly why it seems so strange that now there's been a much longer since the latest version.
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It hasn't been in beta for all that long compared to most other updates that had betas.
 
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