“Apple is planning to release a publicly available beta of the upcoming OS X Yosemite later this month, according to sources briefed on the plans,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac. “This release will mark the first time Apple has released a public beta of a new OS X version in over a decade.”
“Apple released a Developer Preview of Yosemite following the software’s announcement at the June Worldwide Developers Conference, and the company has continued to release updates every two to three weeks since that time,” Gurman reports. “Apple previously said that it will release a public beta of Yosemite this summer.”
Gurman reports, “Apple has chosen to wait until later this month to release the public beta in order to ensure that the operating system is polished enough to be used by consumers, according to the sources.”
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I hope Yosemite is actually ready for public beta when it goes public. The second to last Appleseed update was… OMFG is all I can say.
Hopefully, when ‘the public’ gets a better look at the kindergarten GUI design, we’ll get a chorus of people TELLING Apple to grow up and dump the juvenile ‘minimalism’, which I find beyond annoying, unprofessional and shameful.
You have to remember that kindergarteners and those not much older will be putting it on their systems, too. With their perfect eyesight and zero ties to older OS’s and may exclaim their praises.
And if I were Apple, I’d want to make those folks as happy as possible… They likely have a long purchasing future ahead of them! 🙂
I like the new UI in Yosemite, especially Dark Mode. I wish they had given this to us a long time ago. To each, his own. You’re certainly entitled to your own opinion.
I haven’t tried Dark Mode yet. I’m having trouble enough working around the piles of bug in the developer beta. But I’ll seek it out today! Thanks.
Yup. It’s buggy, but it’s promising. Apple has plenty of time to get the bugs worked out, the major ones anyway. After a few more builds, I’ll start running it every day on one of my Macs live instead of on a secondary boot drive.
That’s the problem “most of them”. The bigger Apple gets the worse products become.
Then don’t use their products.
Just hope they fix mail. The only thing that mail does not crash on is iCloud Mail. Everything else will crash mail in less than 3 minutes.
You need some tech support then. Let’s use basic logic on this. If everything but iCloud mail crashes, then you need to figure out what’s wrong with the other services you use. No one I know has this problem, so let’s not assume that just because it happens to you, it must mean that Mail is broken, and that everyone else has the same problem.
This site is riddled with this everyday. Difference is in your minds Apple can do no wrong. Who is kidding who?
I have provide IT support for several Mac using businesses, and I don’t see Mail crashing in the way you describe. All I said was that this guy needs tech support. MDN comments is not the place to get help. AppleCare is.
I hope they fix Mail. Mail does not crash, it is very very stable! There are REAL problems with Mail, not being able to use more than 1 Exchange account for example. Or no useful formatting. Or iCloud synching, drafts that keep in Drafts while the message has been sent.
In all honesty I do not care if it looks like a Disney Them Park or a badly done Matrix / computers in films and series or like Windows for all I care. I need programs that are the doing what they suggest they can do. Mail does not live up to my expectations, and working in an environment that also has many Window computers my expectations are really not that high. I like the Mail-Calendar-Messages-Spotlight integration a lot and Outlook 2011 for Mac does not do iCloud calendaring but Outlook 2011 is functionally BETTER than Mail! As soon as MS releases “Outlook 2015” I will see if the iCloud services are supported and if they are, I WILL switch to it! I believe a lot can be forgiven, especially from Apple, but Mail is a disappointment.
The mail client I use? Well Mail…..
I LIKE the minimalism (for the most part). Some is a bit too bare bones, but this can be tweaked over time. Sometimes, you have to peel back all the skin to reimagine and perfect the look-and-feel. Give Apple a chance to achieve its goals. It’s not going to be too far off the mark (it never is).
I’ve been using the betas every day full on and not running into any of the problems mentioned above. Beta 4 fixed the one problem I was having with raw-format images.
Yep. Love “dark mode”.
My congratulation to the design group and Jony Ives… I love Minimalism !
My 64GB USB 3 flash drive is formatted, ready and waiting. Bring it on!
Like minimalism or not and I do have some issues, the logic of it is that there needs to be a unified more simple interface to be consistently used across a range of platforms influenced by the fact that some of those cars and home entertainment/control really work better without an excess of detail considering the quality of the displays and the simplified natured of operation and in the case of cars in particular the ambient light while viewing the screen where instant clarity is required.
When Windows 8 beta testers complained of poor usability, they were called apple fanboys and told to shut the hell up.
And that’s how Metro OS 1.0 came to be released as a finished product.