Actually, I agree. I miss when macOS was on a 18-30 month cycle.
10.3 Panther: October 2003
10.4 Tiger: April 2005
10.5 Leopard: October 2007
10.6 Snow Leopard: August 2009
10.7 Lion: July 2011
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Apple Seeds macOS Catalina Golden Master to Developers
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10.3 Panther: October 2003
10.4 Tiger: April 2005
10.5 Leopard: October 2007
10.6 Snow Leopard: August 2009
10.7 Lion: July 2011
I think it will drop earlier for Arcade. I don't think today since they want devs to be able to submit apps using the new SDKs. I don't know if you can do that yet.
Not sure what you are talking about with the Music app, you can literally disable Apple Music, and just have your purchased and imported music.
Ok, I just want to make a few points...
1: this is not the final build that will be in the Mac App Store.
2: Before installing, the Catalina installer tells you all the software that is not 64 bit, and gives you the option to not install the update.
3: If you are still running Mojave, do not update to this GM/DB11/PB10. Just wait for the public release, or, even better, wait for 10.15.1
4: after installing, if the Music app is gibbing you problems with artwork, try this work around.
Open Music, click Music in the menu bar, go to preferences, then go to Files, then underneath Music Media folder location, click Reset. It will default to a new location, "/Users/______/Music/Music/Media. Then press reset, and it will take a while to move all the files. But this fixed all my issues.
Same with TV app, new location will default to /Users/______/Movies/TV/Media
1: this is not the final build that will be in the Mac App Store.
2: Before installing, the Catalina installer tells you all the software that is not 64 bit, and gives you the option to not install the update.
3: If you are still running Mojave, do not update to this GM/DB11/PB10. Just wait for the public release, or, even better, wait for 10.15.1
4: after installing, if the Music app is gibbing you problems with artwork, try this work around.
Open Music, click Music in the menu bar, go to preferences, then go to Files, then underneath Music Media folder location, click Reset. It will default to a new location, "/Users/______/Music/Music/Media. Then press reset, and it will take a while to move all the files. But this fixed all my issues.
Same with TV app, new location will default to /Users/______/Movies/TV/Media
I just updated my i5 MM (2014),2.8GHz,8GB Ram,256SSD to OS Mohave and will update this MM and my other i5 MM (2018),3.0GHz,8GB Ram,256SSD to OS Catalina a week or so before the next OS update next year.
My other i5 MM(Late 2012),2.5GHz,16GB Ram,500GB HD is still on OS Sierra and I plan to update in the near future to either OS High Sierra or OS Mohave.
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Anything that's supported means additional maintenance cost and complexity.
Whether Apple made the right call here is a bit subjective, but there are absolutely benefits to removing old code.
Not for everyone. I have/had 3 - 32 bit apps on my mm18 and the beta installers never told me what they were nor the option to not install.
And you "know" this how, considering the final version has not been released?
Yes, many benefits. People are upset as if Apple just dropped the bomb, but they have been informing the world they were planning on doing this for a few years and warned to start to migrate to full 64-bit. Many wait until the last mimute with most things or wait until they have to do something..well now is the time to have to do something if you want to continue upgrading.
The only bummer about this is some app developers either are not updating or making you buy an upgrade. Understandable, but if you bought last year’s product (like Adobe or Roxio), they use it as a way to make you buy the same product again with just a few more triicks but basically the same product.
Time to move on, I am just wondering when 128-bit will come out...
How do you know that? Quite often, the GM is the same as the final build, no?
Because when I bought an app, I wasn't expecting it to have a finite lifespan - especially one-off games that tend to be built and support dropped after a few years. Apple has been removing 32bit support for no real reason, other than to force app obsolescence.
Uh... they updated 3 different OS branches. Would you be complaining if Apple released security patches for 10.15, 10.14, and 10.13 on the same day?
It's really just a candidate. It's common to have several GM seeds, but Apple needs to set some benchmark so that developers can finalize and submit apps, so they start here.
Yeah. But it’s not just 3 versions of macos, it’s ios, watchos, tvos as well. Apple often release those on the same day - and sometimes microsoft updates come on the same day too. You end up spending the whole day updating everything at once.
It would be easier if they didn’t release everything at once.
Apple have quite a random update schedule. But microsoft have patch tuesday. So the least apple could do is avoid patch tuesday. But do they? Nope. Several times in the past apple updates came out on microsoft’s patch tuesday.
Both those ideas are not good due to security bugs.
Because security issues are shared across Apple platforms and across Windows and Mac (e.g. Intel side channel issues, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth bugs), you need to release everything at the same time to minimize the window where a bug is publicly known and exploitable.
Besides, it's more convenient to disrupt all your work one time and reboot everything at the same time, rather than drag it out. See the complaints about Windows' 2 to 3x a month updates. Personally, it would be the best if the entire industry went to Patch Tuesday.
Where did you read "for no reason"? I've not seen that from any credible source. Let's remember Apple is moving toward greater interoperability of apps between MacOS and iOS. It's quite reasonable to think this will demand 64-bit only apps from this standpoint alone. Who knows what other potential reasons may exist?
Hello, already installed GM version of Catalina.
All works fine without one exception.
Apple ID panel in System Preferences is asking me repeatedly for a Apple ID password.
Once I provided Apple ID password and computer password, then after a while it is asking again and again without stop.
Does any one have this issue too? Maybe someone knows how to fix it?
All works fine without one exception.
Apple ID panel in System Preferences is asking me repeatedly for a Apple ID password.
Once I provided Apple ID password and computer password, then after a while it is asking again and again without stop.
Does any one have this issue too? Maybe someone knows how to fix it?
There was a point in time at which Microsoft was selling, as it's front-line operating systems, Windows CE, ME, NT. ... CEMENT. Make of it what you will.