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iOS 8.0.1 Release Date
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I think we see 8.0.1 by Wednesday this week, it will mainly be much needed stability fixes.
8.0.2 will be for the things they missed out on launch in October at some point, and more bug fixes.
8.0.3 will be bugs fixes for the Heath & other things they launch, plus more bug fixes.
8.0.4 will be for the bug fixes, they introduced while fixes other bugs lol
8.1 will add new features plus more bugs.
8.1.1 will fix the bugs of the new features added in 8.1, while also added more bugs.
8.1.2 will finally be a stable release, then 3 months later iOS9 launches.
iOS9 we start all over again.
8.0.2 will be for the things they missed out on launch in October at some point, and more bug fixes.
8.0.3 will be bugs fixes for the Heath & other things they launch, plus more bug fixes.
8.0.4 will be for the bug fixes, they introduced while fixes other bugs lol
8.1 will add new features plus more bugs.
8.1.1 will fix the bugs of the new features added in 8.1, while also added more bugs.
8.1.2 will finally be a stable release, then 3 months later iOS9 launches.
iOS9 we start all over again.
This is basically how it goes...I think we see 8.0.1 by Wednesday this week, it will mainly be much needed stability fixes.
8.0.2 will be for the things they missed out on launch in October at some point, and more bug fixes.
8.0.3 will be bugs fixes for the Heath & other things they launch, plus more bug fixes.
8.0.4 will be for the bug fixes, they introduced while fixes other bugs lol
8.1 will add new features plus more bugs.
8.1.1 will fix the bugs of the new features added in 8.1, while also added more bugs.
8.1.2 will finally be a stable release, then 3 months later iOS9 launches.
iOS9 we start all over again.
I'm not sure what cfm means, but as far as I know, there's been no concrete evidence to suggest it'll be released on Wednesday. That would be great, though.
I would very much doubt they'll release an update just before they release OS X Yosemite, then have to do another update again a few weeks later!?!
They likely will, especially since they have said they will issue a fix for Healthkit before the end of September.
I agree with you there but will that not be an App update as opposed to an iOS update?
I take it you didn't use itunes to upgrade? Because you don't need to make so much space available on the device, only if you update OTA
The issue is with the Health app which is bundled with iOS. They do not do app updates for individual iOS apps, rather, they come bundled in an iOS update.
I wish they'd slow down and move to a two year cycle. For example:
2014 iOS 8
2015 iOS 8.1
2016 iOS 9
and so on. It feels like every year we just BARELY got a nice stable OS and BAMF they release the new version which is buggy and has issues again. A longer development cycle would give them time to iron out bugs and provide higher quality software.
2014 iOS 8
2015 iOS 8.1
2016 iOS 9
and so on. It feels like every year we just BARELY got a nice stable OS and BAMF they release the new version which is buggy and has issues again. A longer development cycle would give them time to iron out bugs and provide higher quality software.
I disagree. One year sounds about right to me. We're still in a fast-moving world, and technologies appear faster than every two years.
What we don't need every year are massive changes, like the jump from iOS6 to iOS7 was. iOS8 is not nearly so radical a change.
iOS 7 was little more than a skin change. There aren't a lot of end-user features in 8, but a lot more changed under the hood for developers, with new APIs and extensions.
iOS 7 was on version 7.0.3 by the time Mavericks came out. We already know that the HealthKit fix will happen very shortly. Too many health app developers and launch partners are on hold right now for Apple to drag their heels on that fix.
The GM version of iOS 8 was locked down more than a month ago. They probably already knew about the more common bugs well before last Wednesday. I doubt that Apple's been standing pat in the meantime waiting for the launch week bug reports to come flying in.
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iOS 7 was also a platform migration to 64-bit. Between that and the UI update, which Apple only started less than a year earlier, Apple didn't have much time to do a lot of under-the-hood retooling. Reading about the APIs and extensions, it seems that iOS 8 is a much bigger revision than iOS 7, even if it doesn't look like much changed on the surface.
Even so, in my experience iOS 8 is much more stable than iOS 7 was at launch.
Didn't Apple say before iOS 7 was released, that what it was doing with iOS 7 was just the tip of the software iceberg (so to speak) in regards to what it was looking to do moving forward?
Barely... and just because iOS 7 was the biggest disaster in iOS history so far.
Biggest disaster? LOL Hyperbole much?
Let's see -- no random system resets, app crashes limited to a couple of misbehaving gaming apps that already crashed regularly under iOS 7.1.2, no crashes from any other apps or Safari, no noticeable change in battery life. Yeah, in MY experience that's much more than "barely" improving the stability.
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Yeah, and I think that's because aside from the more visible UI changes, much of the iOS 7 update focused on migrating the platform and all the preinstalled apps to 64-bit. Now that Apple has done the major user-facing changes to the UI and the architectural migration, they can focus iOS 8 on the developer-facing components like extensions, APIs, and programming language deployment.
8.0.1 is already in carrier testing. It will be out well before then unless some major issue forces them to re-certify it.
It's been in carrier testing for well over a week. There is no basis for saying well before anything.
I hope 8.0.1 comes out this week. I have a couple of annoying bugs. Specifically, the "Do Not Disturb" in the specific messages that doesn't work