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One Year Later…

Tim Cook Sends Company-wide Email in Honor of Hundredth iOS 9.3 Beta

In an email sent to employees today, Apple CEO Tim Cook offered his congratulations to the iOS development team on the release of the one-hundredth Public Beta release of iOS 9.3. The memo comes on the heels of recent public criticism regarding the company's continued work on the update despite iOS 10's debut nearly six months prior, as well as Apple's announcement of the upcoming iOS 11 at a media event last week. The full email has been posted by 9to5Mac.



As a major update to the iOS 9 operating system, iOS 9.3 introduces several long-awaited features. Night Shift mode, introduced with iOS 10.0 last fall, reduces the amount of blue light users are exposed to in the evening by shifting the display of an iOS device to a warmer, more yellowish color spectrum. Improvements to CarPlay and Apple News are also included, as well as additional Quick Actions for included apps and support for multiple Apple Watches.

Apple is planning to launch iOS 9.3 this summer.


No that wasn't the full post. You must have received the abridged version. The extended version also included this:

iOS 9.3 Public Beta 100 is Apple's most bloated iOS ever with millions of lines of code for hundreds of buried functions, obnoxious nag screens, and ambiguous error messages that will be useful to tens of people. You all helped in creating a point update that truly does nothing to alleviate the annoyances of iOS and bringing true meaning to the phrase "it's a feature not a bug."

iOS 9.3 has thousands of them, none which you will ever need to fix because of your innovations in enabling us to accelerate our hardware obsolesce plan. The technology you gave us to paint a number next to our A chips means last year's hardware can be ignored when a bigger number appears out of my hat. Problem. Solved. That is Apple 2016 and I'm so, so proud of you all.

And Apple shareholders will marvel at how these tiny bits of irrelevancy stack up to big profits as customers are sent to the high end models out of fear there won't be enough useable space on our standard 16GB entry level hardware. So while our iOS 9.3 users will enjoy outstanding shades of yellow as they dose off, we'll be seeing nothing but green 24/7.

:D
 
9.3 is so smooth. Best ios 9 version. Even really smooth on my old 5s.

But what i hate is apple releases major OS, full of bug, choppy, lag, then it gets better and better and better until it seems perfect. By the time it's perfect, the next major OS which is full of bugs and lags waiting around the corner. Give us time to enjoy the fast OS ffs!
 
iOS 2.0 and 5.0 went to 8 betas, there are a few of them that also went to 7.

it is interesting how quickly they progressed thru the betas though.

source: http://www.thinkybits.com/blog/iOS-versions/
iOS 2 and 5 had a GM, counted as a beta.
I don't think iOS 9.3 is going to have a GM (usually reserved to X.0 releases).

I think Apple is trying hard to refine their software after the complaints received lately.
 
Tiny update, <50mb on my 6.

And it still takes more than two months for release. I'm not even sure if they have ironed out major bugs.
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iOS 2 and 5 had a GM, counted as a beta.
I don't think iOS 9.3 is going to have a GM (usually reserved to X.0 releases).

I think Apple is trying hard to refine their software after the complaints received lately.

Sometime I feel it's all for just placebo effects. They don't fix many bugs still..
 
And it still takes more than two months for release. I'm not even sure if they have ironed out major bugs.
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Sometime I feel it's all for just placebo effects. They don't fix many bugs still..
Not really sure what you're on about; 9.3 is a massive improvement from 9.2.
 
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This many beta of a .xx release is pretty unheard of right?
iPhone OS 2.0 had more (if you include 1.2 beta and the second beta was 2.0 so was renamed).
 

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Wow 7 betas is that a record?

1 week to go.
No, iPhone OS 2 had more if you include 1.2 beta (since beta 2 was renamed to 2.0). Also, this is the eighth beta really since there was 9.3 beta, 9.3 beta 1.1 then 9.3 beta 2.
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beta 7 in this time.. didn't see a 7 beta cycle ios before.
iPhone OS 2 if you include the first beta being 1.2. This is the eighth beta of 9.3 since there was a beta 1.1 too.
 

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Since the update I'm missing the radio section in the music app. Apple Music subscription is working fine. A co-worker of mine has the same behaviour. Is Apple perhaps separating the music and radio parts? Or is this just a bug?

Edit: My work phone with iOS 9.2 has radio available in the music app.
 
And it still takes more than two months for release. I'm not even sure if they have ironed out major bugs.
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Sometime I feel it's all for just placebo effects. They don't fix many bugs still..
You don't have idea what's under the hood ....
There is no placebo effect.
They are working on software development and ANY version includes several bug fixes, even if you don't notice.
 
Non US citizens... anybody seeing weather info in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius? I have this bug on my iPad Air 2 since Beta 6 and still there in Beta 7. Very annoying.
 
Non US citizens... anybody seeing weather info in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius? I have this bug on my iPad Air 2 since Beta 6 and still there in Beta 7. Very annoying.
I've used the weather app today and it's in Celsius so not here. I'm in the UK.
 
One Year Later…

Tim Cook Sends Company-wide Email in Honor of Hundredth iOS 9.3 Beta

In an email sent to employees today, Apple CEO Tim Cook offered his congratulations to the iOS development team on the release of the one-hundredth Public Beta release of iOS 9.3. The memo comes on the heels of recent public criticism regarding the company's continued work on the update despite iOS 10's debut nearly six months prior, as well as Apple's announcement of the upcoming iOS 11 at a media event last week. The full email has been posted by 9to5Mac.



As a major update to the iOS 9 operating system, iOS 9.3 introduces several long-awaited features. Night Shift mode, introduced with iOS 10.0 last fall, reduces the amount of blue light users are exposed to in the evening by shifting the display of an iOS device to a warmer, more yellowish color spectrum. Improvements to CarPlay and Apple News are also included, as well as additional Quick Actions for included apps and support for multiple Apple Watches.

Apple is planning to launch iOS 9.3 this summer.

So perfect.
 
To me, all these betas just tell me we're not at GM yet. Working backward, that means they are not loading software on millions of finished iPhone SEs and iPad Air 3s in China -- that will take some time. That means it is unlikely (from my perspective) that we have product availability early next week. Bummer. I wanted the Air 3 on Monday!

....also, this shows that moving the date of the announcement was not due to alignment with the FBI showdown. Just looks like software was not done.
 
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What's wrong with betas ? You don't have to use them...
Omg people on this forum just want to complain about everything :rolleyes:

I'm quite happy about a high number of betas: it means they are working hard on the software development.

Agree. Not an iOS developer, so I fall in the camp of dedicated user. Happy to be part of the betas. The more, the better! My iPhone has been rock solid with these 9.3 betas. I have, like we all have, suffered through some nasty non beta releases.
 
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