I think a new realase date would make everyone more patient, even if it's in a month. Apple made us used to get things at the date they announced it. We forgive less easily on a company like Apple even if their decision to old on the release is the best one.
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So is WatchOS 2 not coming out anymore or what?
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i would take a going to be released end of september or october release date then no communication at all when we should see it.
Well I guess users expect better from one of the largest companies in the world.
Apple is not some crowd-funded startup on Kickstarter or Indiegogo. After announcing the OS months ago, extensively beta testing it for months, and then making a very public announcement of a release date, they should have ensured it was ready for a production release on the announced date ... obviously it wasn't.
Obviously, there was some breakdown in the project management process that allowed the OK to be given to Tim Cook to announce a release date when the product obviously wasn't tested sufficiently enough to uncover a "show stopping" bug.
Working in the industry myself, I understand 11th-hour bugs arise, but the 11th hour should have been before the release date announcement on Sept. 9.
Easy to criticize when you're not there at Apple on that particular software team to know exactly what's going on behind the scenes. Shoulda coulda woulda, right?
Nothing wrong with being critical .. we all have paid a lot of money for their product(s), and some of us are likely shareholders in the company. We have every right to be critical.
I am sure the project lead for the WatchOS team is getting plenty of criticism ... and deservedly so.
I think with ALL the testing that has been done on wOS2, this has to be a very corner case bug, but of significant nature - meaning OS crash, security, major performance hit. But, also probably not something that all would possibly suffer probably just some.
The funny things is you could have 2.0 GM ready for install in like 2 clicks if you look in the threads here or search Google. I'm not seeing issues but I don't have many 3rd party apps installed.
Well stated. I think it's the fact that Apple made a grand announcement of the WatchOS 2 release and pulled it at the last possible moment that's making users upset, not the fact that the software wasn't yet ready for prime time. I'd imagine that this issue is cutting into the Apple Watch sales, so it's really in Apple's best interest to expedite the bug fix. If I were thinking of purchasing the watch right now, I'd definitely wait on pulling the trigger and see how the watchOS 2 situation develops.
I'm actually surprised I haven't seen the #watchos2gate hashtag yet!
wishful thinkingi think they are hopeing it will be released in 2 weeks
im traveling to north america next week and so i can buy one, but if it comes with WOS2 already it will be a problem for me as my phone is 8.3 jailbroken and no way in hell im updating to ios9 anytime soon
Me too, but that's not available in my home country. I have to wait until 2050, when banks & apple made finally an agreement..
this might created a problem if watchOS2 is not released by then. delay of the watch release in denmark?
As much as I wish this were true, watchOS 1.0.1 added support for Danish. I'm sure they still feel pressured by the fifth launch wave this Friday though. I hope that they fix the bug and release OS2 this week, otherwise we're moving into "Soon" rather than "Shortly" territory
Say the two people who have clearly never written software before. Every time you change code it has the potential to introduce bugs. It is also impossible to test every path the code can follow. Here's a great site that tries to simplify the complexities involved in testing software:
http://www.hav.com/horror.html