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Apple Seeds Tenth Beta of iOS 11 to Developers and Public Beta Testers

Seems like Apple has a bunch of would-be janitors in their developers' office. They work out what the release date is (clock-watching) and then work backwards to see how little they need to do in the early stages. Maybe they're not paid enough to bust their asses from beginning to end.
 
Let's hope all these betas and the feedback Apple has received are going to result in the most stable .0 iOS release we've ever seen. Their track record has certainly left a lot to be desired with the past several .0 releases.
 
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kingpushup said:
Likely golden master (GM) now.

Event soon - six days!
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No, this is definitely not the GM. Apple never releases a GM before the iPhone event. A GM is intended to be the exact same version as the final release going out to the public and serves the purpose to allow developers to test their apps on that version ahead of its release to make sure everything is working fine.

It would make no sense for Apple to release the GM ahead of the event, since it would reveal everything about the new iPhones. For instance, the final version would have to include stuff like iPhone 8 glyphs for the devices section in the iCloud settings and the Find my iPhone app or strings revealing the naming scheme of the new iPhones. If you dug in deeper into the code, you would likely find everything there is to know about every single feature. Also, because its main purpose is developer testing, a GM release wouldn’t make any sense if it wasn’t accompanied by an Xcode GM, which would obviously have to contain an iPhone 8 Simulator. This is clearly something Apple wouldn’t want to do, especially after the huge HomePod leak.
 
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mikesch said:
No, this is definitely not the GM. Apple never releases a GM before the iPhone event. A GM is intended to be the exact same version as the final release going out to the public and serves the purpose to allow developers to test their apps on that version ahead of its release to make sure everything is working fine.

It would make no sense for Apple to release the GM ahead of the event, since it would reveal everything about the new iPhones. For instance, the final version would have to include stuff like iPhone 8 glyphs for the devices section in the iCloud settings and the Find my iPhone app or strings revealing the naming scheme of the new iPhones. If you dug in deeper into the code, you would likely find everything there is to know about every single feature. Also, because its main purpose is developer testing, a GM release wouldn’t make any sense if it wasn’t accompanied by an Xcode GM, which would obviously have to contain an iPhone 8 Simulator. This is clearly something Apple wouldn’t want to do, especially after the huge HomePod leak.
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I concur.
 
Obviously perfect software doesn't exist no matter how many betas we get. But if the 11.0 isnt damn stable - at least much more so that the last few .0s, then the effectiveness of Apple's beta/public beta programmes surely has to come into question
 
Mac-lover3 said:
What's hideous about it?
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Its been talked about in several threads, but basically the entire concept is bad. Trying to fit everything on one page with a dozen individual "tiles" that cover the whole screen and then making the "tiles" expand to show more content is just very bad design. The whole concept is so bad it's Microsoft. With a couple tweaks iOS 10 control center could solve the problems people have with it's limited functions and not look fugly.

Can anyone with a 6/7 Plus reach the music tile in iOS 11 control center one-handed???
 
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killr_b said:
Its been talked about in several threads, but basically the entire concept is bad. Trying to fit everything on one page with a dozen individual "tiles" that cover the whole screen and then making the "tiles" expand to show more content is just very bad design. The whole concept is so bad it's Microsoft. With a couple tweaks iOS 10 control center could solve the problems people have with it's limited functions and not look fugly.

Can anyone with a 6/7 Plus reach the music tile in iOS 11 control center one-handed???
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Yes I can with ease, and if it’s too high you can remove some of the tiles to lower it a row
 
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