“Have Apple engineers been drinking too much champagne ahead of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C launch?” Bryan M. Wolfe asks for AppAdvice. “How else can one explain the strange state of iOS 7 heading in the U.S. Labor Day weekend?”
“Most in the technology community may be sold on the radical new redesign that is iOS 7. Once you get past the power users, however, Apple has a lot of explaining to do. That will be much harder to do given the current state of iOS 7 in the three month beta process,” Wolfe writes. “Numerous developers in recent days have told us that iOS 7, especially on the iPad, isn’t anywhere ready for a public launch. Screen locks, strange fonts, and incorrect image placements are just some of the issues we’ve heard about the sixth iOS 7 beta, which was released way back on Thursday, Aug. 15.”
Wolfe writes, “On the iPhone, iOS 7 appears much more solid. Still, even here most developers we’ve spoken to hope that Apple releases one more beta before launching the final, gold master (GM) version. Sept. 10 is now just two weeks away.”
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MacDailyNews Take: A little birdy tells us that iOS 7 will be a dual-pronged release: First with new iPhone/iPod touch models, and then, a month or so later, with new iPad/iPad mini models.