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Apple Seeds Sixth OS X 10.10.4 Yosemite Beta to Developers and Public Beta Testers
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I remember posts like this during the Mavericks and Yosemite beta....then soon after, the flood of complaints regarding both releases.
So.. We get yet another Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 BETA just one week after the last one, but still no iOS 9 BETA2 to fix the battery drain?
Every Beta 1 of iOS has battery drain issues. Every. Single. One. Its expected.
Time to give iTunes Match customers higher quality audio iTunes Plus is terrible and who cares about Apple Music.
Well they are, more or less. mDNSresponder is an open-source, cross-platform package that's been around for as long as zeroconf has existed, while (I believe) discoveryd was written by Apple specifically as an in-house replacement.
Nope. BT audio is still atrocious. I'm using a bluetooth speaker and it skips like crazy. I've reported during every beta release this round, but it's still not working, unfortunately.
Preview untouched, ergo, still borken.
It will be really sad if Preview stays broken for the entire Yosemite release.
It will be really sad if Preview stays broken for the entire Yosemite release.
IDK, iOS 9 beta 1 seems pretty solid to me, especially for a first beta. I've had three bugs so far:
1 - It's crashed twice on me in the past week. Not a big deal - not sure how to reliably reproduce it.
2 - It messes up keyboard placement in Messages sometimes. Just going back a screen and returning gets it to put the keyboard in the right place. A bit annoying, also not sure how to reliably reproduce it. I'd make fixing it higher priority than #1 since it happens a few times a day vs. once every few days.
3 - Insane battery drain. I was getting 20+ hours under iOS 8 two weeks ago. Now I'm getting 4-6 hours with iOS 9 beta 1. This is easily the highest priority bug to fix - it impacts me every day and renders my iPhone for the later part of the day. This isn't a small problem that requires a bit of tweaking - this seems like a massive issue that needs to be fixed immediately. It may be a small issue code wise... maybe just a busy loop somewhere wasting power in the background... but it has a huge impact on user experience
You do understand this beta is for developers to test their apps with and nothing more? It is not meant to be used as a daily driver.
The public beta next month is more likely to be optimized for the battery life as it is meant for users to share their experiences but for developer betas, it is only optimized for including latest code changes and nothing more.
Really? You're saying you can make out quality differences between iTunes Plus and, say, a Pono?
Doubt it.
Damn it! I knew it was too good to be true. We are probably going to have to wait for elcap.
Geez, I remember when we had to wait 2 years for the major updates — and then on top of the waiting, we had to pay 129 bucks.
Also another thing with mdnsresponder is that it is widely used outside of Apple - many routers (including Apple's own which is based on VxWorks) utilise it, Microsoft I'm sure tested their own implementation against what is out there so it has pretty much become the defacto implementation for the industry so for Apple to change it in OS X/iOS has caused more problems that it has solved. Philip W. Schiller on John Gruber's show recently addressed it but didn't go into any details as to why Apple decided to replace mdnsresponder with discoveryd other than saying that they wanted to try something new, it didn't work, so they went back to what worked before. Given that they've bought it back in 10.10.4/10.11 and iOS 9.0 (and I'd say the next version of Apple TV will have it) I doubt we'll see it reappear other than lessons learned from discoveryd and any improvements to mdnsresponder to be done within the existing code base which has been battle field hardened.
The first version is always the worst with the most problems. I remember a ton of issues last year that continually improved with each release. As a dev I could live with the early iOS releases but I waited for the 4th or 5th release on OSX before upgrading because I couldn't live with issues on my computer. Reading the dev forums is pretty comical this time of year at least.
This update was a quick one and went with no problems. I honestly cannot tell that anything is different from the last. Cocktail does not work anymore but that started with the last build and I imagine it is something Maintain has to fix and not Apple.
Photos will no longer import from my camera card. The directory on the card is faded and can't be selected. I could, however, drag and drop the photos into the app.
I got into this thread just to see if the giant beeping weird sound happened to anyone else and if it meant certain doom, this is good to read.