So beta 1 expires July 24th and beta 2 was released on June 24th. Beta 2 expires on August 8th so will beta 3 be out July 8th (2 weeks after beta 2's release)?
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There's a difference between a bug, and a critical/big/huge bug (the latter being the way it was presented in the thread). Right? Right.
I agree, quick reply looks like it is coming. I can't phantom why the notification bar is so big. It is begging for some kind of actions. Mavericks has it already so its just a matter of time, surprise feature?
You don't consider a critical bug one in which a specific group of settings would cause the whole installation process to hang temporarily disabling the user's phone?
Granted, we are developers and can fix this issue by either installing fresh, reverting back to ios 6 or investigating further, but if this is not resolved then millions of customers could pottentially "brick" their phones when it comes to the GM.
Apparently resetting all settings prior to updating to seed 2 solves the problem for everyone affected. Consequently we can infer that there was a bug in the update process.
And yes, a bug that bricks the phone, even temporarily, is a critical bug.
One that is not critical is, for example, the status bar shadow issue.
There is also a difference between a severity of an issue and essentially how widespread it is. There can certainly be very severe issues, but if they only apply in some very limited cases, and thus only affect a very small subset of users (and even only sometimes perhaps), those bugs overall might not create a necessity of a rush for a quick fix and a truly big deal made out of them.
The way the information was presented in this thread earlier is that there is some sort of a big issue that would really warrant something different and a rushed update in relation to it, meaning the issue would not only be severe but also widespread. That doesn't appear to be the case, which is what most, for the most part, have been trying to point out.
Now, perhaps the wording used in the original comments about this and the follow ups didn't quite draw distinctions between different aspects that might apply to the bug, so that could have contributed to the way the discussion of it has turned out in this thread.
What it comes down to it seems is this: it's not really about how big/huge the bug in question might be, but about how bad it is, which is somewhat different.
BGR says b3 is on schedule for a release on July 8th.
http://bgr.com/2013/06/28/ios-7-beta-3-download-release-july-8/
http://bgr.com/2013/06/28/ios-7-beta-3-download-release-july-8/