“After the announcements earlier this week, we’re pretty stoked about both iOS 8 and Yosemite, but as with most of Apple’s betas, it’s pretty hard to recommend that anyone who isn’t a developer check them out,” Thorin Klosowski writes for Lifehacker.
“Over the years, Apple has repeatedly shown us that installing beta versions of iOS is always a bad idea. They’re buggy, unstable, hard to use, drain your battery life, and make a bunch of your apps unusable,” Klosowski writes. “iOS 8 is no different… Yyou won’t have access to most of the big features until it officially launches. Healthkit won’t be too useful until other apps tap into it and the same goes for Homekit. Likewise, Continuity will be useless until Yosemite is released. Other big features, like the new photo management tool, third party keyboards, family sharing, or even the new messaging features won’t be useful until iOS 8 is public.”
“For OS X Yosemite, Apple’s giving everyone a chance to be a beta tester this summer. If you’re not a developer, you are probably better off waiting for the public test.,” Klosowski writes. “Apple’s a relatively careful company when it comes to their desktop operating systems, so while bugs will certainly be around in the public beta, they’re probably not going destroy your system. Developer betas are a lot different though. Since the general assumption with a beta is that you know what you’re doing, these early betas tend to be pretty buggy and unstable. More importantly for you, Yosemite isn’t feature-complete right now.”
The full article, with instructions on how to partition your drive and install Yosemite safely, here.