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iOS 8.4 Launching at 8 AM Pacific Tuesday, Beats 1 Goes Live at 9 AM [Updated]

C DM said:
Well, not releasing it too early is fairly sound idea--that way whenever people do update it's much more likely that the service will already be up and running and they won't be faced with some sort of "coming soon" type of screen or announcement and basically get disappointed that they still have to wait and perhaps not get back to it for some time after that because they might forget or something like that. Basically if a product/service is announced to be there with a certain update then once people have that update it seems like it's better that that product/service should already be there and working.
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I agree. But then they shouldn't promote the 9am launch. This does not make any sense. It will only make people angry because they are ramping up excitement for something almost nobody will be able to listen to.
 
C DM said:
Well, not releasing it too early is fairly sound idea--that way whenever people do update it's much more likely that the service will already be up and running and they won't be faced with some sort of "coming soon" type of screen or announcement and basically get disappointed that they still have to wait and perhaps not get back to it for some time after that because they might forget or something like that. Basically if a product/service is announced to be there with a certain update then once people have that update it seems like it's better that that product/service should already be there and working.
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Not really. I've seen you around these forums enough to know that you know fine well what an iOS release is like. There are people that want to listen to Beats1 go live, who won't be able to, because iOS 8.4 won't have downloaded due to server overload. We don't even know if there will be any listen again/catchup feature.

Razeus said:
Frankly the updates should have been today while the go live for Beats 1 at a set time tomrrow. This is going to get botched judging by Apple's record.
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Exactly. One of Apple's bad ideas!!
 
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Razeus said:
Frankly the updates should have been today while the go live for Beats 1 at a set time tomrrow. This is going to get botched judging by Apple's record.
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I would think there will be a "NEW Apple Music!" splash screen after you update. If they released the update today the service wouldn't be live, this way it'll be live as people update.
 
shandyman said:
Not really. I've seen you around these forums enough to know that you know fine well what an iOS release is like. There are people that want to listen to Beats1 go live, who won't be able to, because iOS 8.4 won't have downloaded due to server overload. We don't even know if there will be any listen again/catchup feature.



Exactly. One of Apple's bad ideas!!
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It could go either way in one sense or another, but in the overall sense, for most typical users, it still seems that it's a generally better experience to have a service/product already available when the user tries to use it, rather than having a "coming soon" type of experience. I don't deny that there will be many who will want to tune in for the very beginning, but there will likely be far far more who won't even really know or care about that (again most of the typical users) who will stumble on Apple Music and the new radio service and for those it would be better if it was up and running already than not. Hopefully there will be some sort of on-demand/podcast type of experience available so that people can listen to various programming that aired earlier later on.
 
ButteryScrollin said:
I would think there will be a "NEW Apple Music!" splash screen after you update. If they released the update today the service wouldn't be live, this way it'll be live as people update.
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Exactly, finally someone "gets it". Apple music accessibility would not work without everything in place in their back-end. iOS 8.4 is basically their switch to turn on Apple Music, with their back-end being switched on at about the same time. I would even go as far to predict that if Apple is really serious with this, they will also offer iTunes for Windows and for Mac updates tomorrow, too.
 
tob! said:
Then just release it at midnight - problem solved.
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Is that when the Apple Music service goes live as well? Otherwise it doesn't seem to address what that poster brought up.
 
ButteryScrollin said:
I would think there will be a "NEW Apple Music!" splash screen after you update. If they released the update today the service wouldn't be live, this way it'll be live as people update.
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You can just run a very small patch on the day to activate the service.

Realising two things with a dependence on the same day, recipe for disappointment !
 
MH01 said:
You can just run a very small patch on the day to activate the service.

Realising two things with a dependence on the same day, recipe for disappointment !
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It seems people are ignoring 8.4 beta, which has all the backend built in, with a Beats1 demo on loop and all that. What's wrong with them having that and releasing 8.4 today, ensuring a wide audience are ready for it to kick off tomorrow? rather than launching an hour after 8.4 is released, whilst servers are stalling out due to the usual upgrade traffic. We've seen it happen with EVERY release! Same bottleneck. Yet some people on here are being ignorant of that fact....
 
JetBlack7 said:
If anyone can answer me this, is IOS 8.4 stable? Better than 8.3? What are your thoughts and experiences?
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Not too many major issues with 8.4 except music that I don't want synced has been synced even when selecting to only sync ticked music as well as old purchases that have been deleted from my iTunes library showing up on my iPhone and iPad hopefully the full release will address this issue
 
Sweet!

No mentioning which those «over 100 countries» are, but I expect Norway to be among them. After all we got Spotify years before the US...
 
solaris said:
Sweet!

No mentioning which those «over 100 countries» are, but I expect Norway to be among them. After all we got Spotify years before the US...
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Since there's also a norwegian iTunes Store, you can expect it to be ready on day one. Apple just needed to re-negotiate all tracks also for streaming, they basically will offer almost 100% of the iTunes Store content in the long run, doesn't make sense any other way.
 
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