And yet it wasn't ready for release and they released it anyway?
Your post contributes nothing but an implied insult. This is called flame baiting. Your post has been reported.
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It's good to hear it will at least function on a rotating drive (not clear at all in the article), but you're telling me they didn't test this thing on their own shipping fusion drives before releasing it? Clearly, it wasn't ready for prime time. What else is missing/wrong? Apple is now using regular users as guinea pigs?
There's a reason why Microsoft is selling Surface PCs very well these days and Apple is having trouble selling ANYONE an iPad Pro. They also refuse to admit that touchscreen OPTIONS would be a good idea (if only to spite Microsoft). It was a good idea to allow Windows to be installed on Macs. This increased their audience and people who need both. But they are now limiting that audience by not including touchscreens on Macbooks.
Even if they aren't used in macOS, they should include the capability for Windows users and frankly they should allow iOS emulation inside macOS for obvious reasons (not the least of which is to be able to play iOS only games on a Mac which was gaining new games until Apple ditched OpenGL (before finishing it to the last update) for Metal that almost no one uses or supports on the Mac the last time I looked. They took the cross-platform coding advantage (OpenGL) that made some game development for the Mac fairly easy and instead of waiting for the new cross-platform STANDARD to be finished (Vulkan), they jump in with a non-standard solution of their own that does little more than DRIVE AWAY game makers who can't be bothered to make special code for 5-8% of the market.
You do realize that Windows 10 on a phone is NOT the same install as that on a home computer, right? You install what's needed for a given platform, but that doesn't mean you create a new OS either. iOS started out as a subset of OS X. But now it's macOS (formerly OS X) getting most of its new "features" from iOS because Apple doesn't give a crap about "trucks" anymore (as the utter lack of updates to most of their line has shown including STILL no new Mac Mini model superior to the 2012 server).
I didn't ignore anything. You started making assumptions based on two words. iOS and macOS should have re-converged by now on a core level and macOS should have basic touch screen options instead of a flipping stupid function key "pad" that takes all the power of an iOS device but can't do anything useful like one all just to avoid admitting they were WRONG. Small thin lightweight notebooks make excellent pads in a pinch (something Microsoft did right for once).
Instead, Apple refuses to admit their phone is actually a computer and their computers are pretty much left out for the garage sales these days. Oh, we have a replacement for R2D2 coming...some day. It's gonna be GREAT though! We can put out a new phone every 8 months, but we can't manage a new Mac Mini or Mac Pro for 3-4 years at a stretch when any two-bit PC maker worth 1/20,000 of Apple can offer 20 different NEW Windows/Linux machines every 4 months. It's ridiculous. They can afford multi-billion dollar real estate in the shape of UFOs, but can't manage to update their hardware in a reasonable time period!
I'm going to address only one of your questions/comments, because the rest is purely a matter of differing opinions about how Apple is or should be doing things. If you or I were running Apple, things would be done differently. However, I'm not convinced that either you or I are more competent than Apple's current management.
It's good to hear it will at least function on a rotating drive (not clear at all in the article), but you're telling me they didn't test this thing on their own shipping fusion drives before releasing it? Clearly, it wasn't ready for prime time. What else is missing/wrong? Apple is now using regular users as guinea pigs?
I never told you Apple doesn't test software before releasing it to the beta testers. You seem to have come to that conclusion on your own.
Of course Apple tests these things on their own shipping Fusion Drives. That's called alpha testing. The most widespread faults are likely to come to light, but they can't possibly test enough software/hardware configurations to cover all the possibilities. That's what betas are for.
For years, Apple was very selective about who participated in betas - mostly developers who need to debug their own products on the new OS (so their attention is focused in a particular direction), members of the media, IT professionals... Still, a relatively small group. Apple was criticized for not running a larger, public beta that would expose the software to an even greater sample of the end user community, and uncover even more bugs prior to release.
So now that Apple's seen the light, they're guilty of endangering "regular users?"
Apple runs two beta groups - the Developers Beta, and the Public Beta. Typically, the Developers Beta starts a couple of weeks before the Public Beta, with one or two versions of the software that the Public Betas will never see. Once the Public Beta begins, the Developers Beta will typically get a version a day or two before the Public Beta, to further protect the Public Betas.
So no, Apple is not using "regular users" as guinea pigs. They invite people to participate in a beta test, they explain the purpose of a beta test and the risks and responsibilities that go along with participating in the test. The tester decides whether to participate. All too often, testers ignore the warnings and instructions, just as people ignore most warnings and instructions.
The purpose of a beta test is to AVOID using regular users as guinea pigs. In this case, the beta uncovered bugs that had not been discovered in alpha testing. The regular users have now been protected from a potentially serious problem. This is exactly the way it's supposed to work.
Still, a fair number of people who install betas believe that it is demo software - 100% debugged code that is issued purely for evaluation. Where do they get that idea? Certainly not if they read the contents of Apple's beta web site.
