I am always amazed by people who seem to think Apple throws together an OS release a month of two before WWDC.
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Signs of Apple's Work on iOS 7.0.1, iOS 7.0.2, iOS 7.1, and iOS 8 Showing Up in Web Logs
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I am always amazed by people who seem to think Apple throws together an OS release a month of two before WWDC.
Unless there are any big issues in the GM that need a quicker fix I'd expect 7.01 to coincide with the Mavericks release to bring the iCloud Keychain sync functionality that was in the beta and not the GM.....
While I'm not hugely surprised iOS8 is under development at this stage I am quite surprised it is being used outside of development labs and showing up in the wild on server logs as it must be a very very very early build at this point.
While I'm not hugely surprised iOS8 is under development at this stage I am quite surprised it is being used outside of development labs and showing up in the wild on server logs as it must be a very very very early build at this point.
I'm going on gut but I'm predicting July we get iPhone 6. I have no idea about iOS 8 and if that will accompany the new iPhone.
Otherwise I'd upgrade my iPhone 4S now and pay the early upgrade fee to get off the S cycle. But I just doubt Apple is going to wait til September. Even though all other releases have been Sept.
The stock is down 10% everyone I know (most now techy like this crowd) sees no advantage to upgrading to 5S. When Apple disappoints and loses market share they will show they're not deaf by releasing early.
Love capitalism.
I'm guessing "iOS 8" is simply the latest trunk builds for iOS.
Development often works like this:
1. The main development line, sometimes called the trunk. New features, major or not, all enter this one. Since everything goes, it's unstable. Apple would never release a snapshot of this development line. But it's what all iOS versions are built from.
2. The branches. These are here to solve the stability problem. Apple simply decides "OK DONE. This current state of features will eventually become iOS 7.0. So let's take everything from the trunk thus far, and work on stabilizing this. Focus on bug fixes and stability only." (so called "feature freeze") Meanwhile, new features can aboslutely still enter the trunk as other development teams at Apple keeps working on brand new awesome features. Work on the trunk as well as the different active branches all happen in parallel! Different teams at Apple can work on iOS 8, iOS 7.0.1, and iOS 7.1, all at once.
Sometimes a branch can be pretty small. Basically a branch of a branch. Apple may, in similar fashion as above, decide "OK, don't add work planned for iOS 7.1 to this spin-off from iOS 7.0 and only focus on fixing outstanding bugs to eventually form iOS 7.0.1, so that we can get that one out the door earlier than iOS 7.1."
So I think all this is what we're seeing here.
iOS 8 may appear in the logs, but it'll probably be 1) unstable and 2) still very similar to iOS 7. Maybe some experimental under the hood changes, some bold optimizations or whatever, but nothing too exciting. However, as time moves on, the more different the trunk will be from what we see in iOS 7.
iOS 7.1 may also be pretty sparse in terms of new stuff still. However, maybe it's already received some thing they didn't get in time for iOS 7.0.
And iOS 7.0.1 may be small things discovered even during the late betas and GM development that the just didn't have time to fix, and they want to get out earliest.
Development often works like this:
1. The main development line, sometimes called the trunk. New features, major or not, all enter this one. Since everything goes, it's unstable. Apple would never release a snapshot of this development line. But it's what all iOS versions are built from.
2. The branches. These are here to solve the stability problem. Apple simply decides "OK DONE. This current state of features will eventually become iOS 7.0. So let's take everything from the trunk thus far, and work on stabilizing this. Focus on bug fixes and stability only." (so called "feature freeze") Meanwhile, new features can aboslutely still enter the trunk as other development teams at Apple keeps working on brand new awesome features. Work on the trunk as well as the different active branches all happen in parallel! Different teams at Apple can work on iOS 8, iOS 7.0.1, and iOS 7.1, all at once.
Sometimes a branch can be pretty small. Basically a branch of a branch. Apple may, in similar fashion as above, decide "OK, don't add work planned for iOS 7.1 to this spin-off from iOS 7.0 and only focus on fixing outstanding bugs to eventually form iOS 7.0.1, so that we can get that one out the door earlier than iOS 7.1."
So I think all this is what we're seeing here.
iOS 8 may appear in the logs, but it'll probably be 1) unstable and 2) still very similar to iOS 7. Maybe some experimental under the hood changes, some bold optimizations or whatever, but nothing too exciting. However, as time moves on, the more different the trunk will be from what we see in iOS 7.
iOS 7.1 may also be pretty sparse in terms of new stuff still. However, maybe it's already received some thing they didn't get in time for iOS 7.0.
And iOS 7.0.1 may be small things discovered even during the late betas and GM development that the just didn't have time to fix, and they want to get out earliest.
Too bad they'll probably not move away from the super-candy-colored, gaudy, flat, Katy Perry-ish style they're using for iOS 7.
They can keep the very nice parallax effect, though.
If only they'd tone down the color palette...judging from the 5c, though, it looks unlikely.
Alas, I know I'm in the minority in this regard, but I would have liked a hybrid of iOS 6 (icons, some skeuomorphism), and iOS 7 (transparency, parallax, quick access).
As always with Apple: Sigh. They give some, but take some away.
They can keep the very nice parallax effect, though.
If only they'd tone down the color palette...judging from the 5c, though, it looks unlikely.
Alas, I know I'm in the minority in this regard, but I would have liked a hybrid of iOS 6 (icons, some skeuomorphism), and iOS 7 (transparency, parallax, quick access).
As always with Apple: Sigh. They give some, but take some away.
I would also expect the beta of 7.01 to be out soon too and bring back the keychain stuff...
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Why would they be working on iOS 7.0.1 or whatever version if iOS 7.0 is not even out? Does that mean iOS 7.0 is NOT READY? Why not add the 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 fixes to 7.0?????
I'm lost here
Why would they be working on iOS 7.0.1 or whatever version if iOS 7.0 is not even out? Does that mean iOS 7.0 is NOT READY? Why not add the 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 fixes to 7.0?????
I'm lost here
This is actually very normal. We do this as well in our development. We'll fix some bugs that are marked high priority. We'll then pass the code to another division within software dev with our fix and they can update their REQs. Meanwhile, we can start pushing out fixes ASAP while others are in the works.
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Why would they be working on iOS 7.0.1 or whatever version if iOS 7.0 is not even out? Does that mean iOS 7.0 is NOT READY? Why not add the 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 fixes to 7.0?????
I'm lost here
Because additional bugs can be found faster when released to the general public. If a software was to be published with zero bugs, that software would be obsolete (almost) by time its released.
I'm guessing the execs have figured out what iOS 8 should be and started a broad development (pre-alpha) of the new features. This will be modified hundreds of times - adding or taking away things until the execs are happy with the feature set. Then it'll come down to working out those features to be included in an alpha release. Then beta to devs.
iOS 8: FullHD resolution for the iPhone, Apple fixing the OS icons ( https://medium.com/product-experience/9a7b4648fe8b ) and hiring the designers from Dribble ?
I agree, Apple won't just be sitting on its laurels waiting for user feedback to start development of iOS 8. Apple is just moving forward with its ideas like any other tech company...this is normal people...
Ios7 and maverick is what I am looking forward to, just feel that that the iPhone 5s/c was a let down.
Roll on iPad refresh.
Roll on iPad refresh.
No, they already have iOS 13 and the iphone 10 done. They just wait to release it so that a lot of hype builds up....
