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iOS 11.x.x Release Speculation Thread
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So it is 10 builds further along from beta 4 (15E5201e), nice! Here's hoping they mainly focused on stability!
Edit: I am not sure what the a and e at the end mean
Not exactly. That is the version of THAT build. So 'a' would be the 1st version and 'e' would be a 5th version of that particular build. A minor change to the same build basically.
Yes, but when they get many revisions of a single build, it's usually because they fix more things after the build is out. So we usually tend to see 'e', 'f', 'g' in the first betas of a long cycle (.x releases) and it gets to 'a', 'b', 'c' further down the betas as it gets polished and better
EDIT: but then again, it's not an indicator of quality... just an indicator of that build passing QA the first time
I’m no prophet. I’m not a miracle worker. But, I predict a beta 6 on Thursday as well - because I haven’t spent my baseless-speculation ticket yet.
i wouldnt be surprised if beta 6 is thursday. monday is beta 7 and then the following monday is public release. im going with march 26th.
What's the point of releasing a beta build if you don't give it any soak time to find bugs?
Other than a massive bug that would affect testers base functionality, I don't see why you would release another in only a few days.
Because the majority of public beta users are using betas to have the newest software, and not to test and report bugs, but rather complain about them.
...and they never read the first post of the beta thread, so they post comments on existing known issues.
You are so right! If they would just read the first post they would know what the known issues are and not waste time posting asking if the issue has been fixed!
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