“Apple may release a public beta for OS X Yosemite as early as next week, according to an online report Monday,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld. “Citing ‘sources briefed on the plans,’ 9to5Mac asserted that Apple plans to ship the public beta of Yosemite — prosaically named OS X 10.10 — later this month. The last day of July is a week from Thursday”
“Some doubt that the public beta will appear as soon as 9to5Mac claimed,” Keizer reports. “‘It’s not even remotely close to being ready,’ said a commenter on the 9to5Mac story, who implied that the latest developer preview was still shaky.”
“Apple released the fourth Yosemite developer preview on Monday. That update, and the three prior were available only to registered developers, who pay $99 annually for access to pre-release Apple software for the Mac, including OS X, so they can begin crafting or modifying their own applications,” Keizer reports. “Apple has also declined to set a launch date for the final, polished version of Yosemite. If Apple uses the same timetable as last year, it will ship Yosemite on Oct. 15 or Oct. 22.”
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I got a bad feeling about this (after the past however long using Yosemite and iOS8 developer previews). Another month would be better IMO.
To say that a Beta release isn’t ready… I mean, that’s the whole purpose, right? Get it in front of as many interested people as possible in its unfinished state!
Yeah, but they are going to give it to a million people, and as far as betas go it could be a bit readier. Maybe it’s no worse than the final version of Lion was. 🙂
The sooner the better and with very detailed bug list as well as clear statement detailing the risk; followed by recommendation that it should only be tried on spare hardware and not on their primary device.
Don’t release it. Mac users are complaining that it’s still too buggy. No need to rush it just to satisfy the minute group of techy users.
Release it 2 weeks before the iPhone release. Remember what happened to the rush on imaps rollout.
The problem with the map was lack of clarity. They should have just told the truth:
– This is new technology and work in progress
– List of known issues
– List of locations with poor map
– Create an internal system to take bug reports (as they are doing these days)
– Create an internal system for receiving enhancement requests
– Provide a roadmap that is updated every quarter
Google has been doing this all along. I am not suggesting Apple should become like Google (Heaven forbid) but Apple does need to create the platform for work-in-progress for a large group of Apple fans who are willing to be at the sharp edge of innovation.
Given that Apple is on a every 2 week update cycle now, it seems reasonable that Monday, August 4th will be when the public beta release drops.
‘It’s not even remotely close to being ready,’ said a commenter on the 9to5Mac story
That commenter did not go unchallenged, though. And since when do commenters qualify as ‘sources’ in a news story, anyway?
Well, a plethora of pundits and sources often have no more clue than a random “commenter.” 😆
Ready. Waiting.
Article incorrectly reads that the 4th developer preview and the 3 prior were only available to developers who pay $99 per year. I’m a Appleseed Beta tester and I have downloaded all 3 of the prior versions as well as the current 4th. Up until the 3rd release I ran them on my external drive and when the 3rd was released installed it as my main OS that I’m typing it on now. I’m pretty impressed with the 4th preview and it’s very stable.