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?
Wow, I don't know where to start...
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Apple Seeds Sixth OS X 10.10.4 Yosemite Beta to Developers and Public Beta Testers
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Wow, I don't know where to start...
I have seen so many of these comments that you mentioned. I think Apple is supposed to release a perfect operating system that works for everyone without any betas.
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Nothing is a massive issue in beta 1. Even if the OS crashed every 30 seconds beta testers aren't supposed to go around getting their knickers in a twist about it. You would submit a bug report, and advise you are unable to test further and wait for beta 2. You don't demand a beta 2 'immediately.'
If your user experience is being impacted every day then you shouldn't have installed a developers' beta 1 OS on your phone. If this were a release candidate, you might have a point, but there are months ahead where the beta process will take its usual course. You may find the battery drain is actually a very low priority bug right now, depending on how much Apple know about the causes, and how much work would be involved to fix it.
The included firmware update of the new 10.10.4 PB changed my grey 2012 Mac mini boot screen to the new black/white design. Nice look.
(If it finally would fix the kernel panic and graphics flickering problem that 10.10.3 brought, I'd be happier... but at least it will crash more beautiful now).
(If it finally would fix the kernel panic and graphics flickering problem that 10.10.3 brought, I'd be happier... but at least it will crash more beautiful now
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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?
I'm playing the world's smallest violin for you now. Maybe you'll think twice before installing a beta operating system on a cell phone next time.
Yosemite is a released product, with existing bugs users are suffering from. It's clear which one should be the more important -- which is a stupid argument as well. They're two operating systems with different teams. There's no evidence a release on one side is coming at the cost of the other. It's just a matter that one team is ready for a new beta and the other is not yet.
Better HTML5 support would be good. It's a bit embarrassing being so far behind Chrome - in fact lingering around IE levels. Hoping El-C fixes that.
I wouldn't call it ”buggy as heck”. Yosemite is and has been working very well for me overall.
It's so funny when they announce a 6-month preview of the next-gen OS you act like the previous gen isn't only 6 months old. LOL
Just had a check, yes you are correct - I would have though Microsoft would support a widely supported standard but I guess Microsoft is the same old Microsoft.
Didn't anyone actually watch the keynote?
Apple Music is a part of iTunes on the Mac and Windows.
Can i ask...given that the beta for the next version is out. do updates to this version get replicated into the next beta of the next version or do bugs continue.
in case that doesn't make sense. lets say in this beta they fix a bug that is in a bit of the new version that hasn't been touched - does the bug fix get moved into the new version as well. i.e. how does software development work? is there a common core and who ever is building a new version always uses the latest?
in case that doesn't make sense. lets say in this beta they fix a bug that is in a bit of the new version that hasn't been touched - does the bug fix get moved into the new version as well. i.e. how does software development work? is there a common core and who ever is building a new version always uses the latest?
I understand the risks involved with installing a beta OS on my device. That's why everything is backed up. Before installing the OS, I made sure I'd be okay if my entire iPhone was bricked as a result (it would suck, sure, but I could manage.)
I'm not demanding anything. Nowhere in that post did I use a word like that. I mentioned it was easily the most severe bug.
Here's what I don't understand: you don't think it's a big issue. If iOS 9 was released today, that is the issue everyone would be talking about. No one would care about the other issues, because they're all trivial compared to this one. Apple shouldn't put off fixing it - if they put it off, then they run the risk of having other issues pop up.
Given the relative lack of other issues, this is something they need to fix in beta 2. Honestly, if they fix the battery drain issue, they could ship beta 2 as the release version of iOS 9, I think. Apple Music and News can wait and be added in 9.1. Or they could be apps you get via the App Store, no update required.
