“Apple has come out with a second beta of Mac OS X Yosemite for developers, but it’s not clear whether this latest build will address the Wi-Fi problems that continue to affect an undetermined but apparently substantial number of users,” Juan Carlos Perez reports for IDG News Service.
“With this build, labeled 10.10.2 (14C68k), Apple didn’t identify any specific problem areas it would like developers to focus on as they test the OS, according to multiple reports from news outlets and individuals with access to the release notes,” Perez reports. “When Apple released the first beta of Yosemite little over two weeks ago, it asked developers to pay particular attention to several issues, including Wi-Fi, which has been a constant source of complaints since the OS came out.”
That first beta yielded a formal OS update released to the public on Monday. However, that update, labeled 10.10.1, didn’t stamp out the Wi-Fi problems,” Perez reports. “The most common complaint from affected users is that after installing Yosemite their Wi-Fi connection becomes very slow or highly unstable, dropping every few minutes.”
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MacDailyNews Take: From the point of view of those suffering with these fsckwittian Wi-Fi issues – from Mavericks through Yosemite, no less – it continues to amaze that a company the size of Apple, with all of their resources, continues to be unable to fix these issues.
Apple, we need reliable Wi-Fi. What say you work on delivering it for a change?
(You don’t even want to know the Takes that we… hang on a sec, our fscking Wi-Fi just quit again and we have to turn it off and on and pray yet again… okay… wrote then decided not to publish regarding this unbelievably irritating issue.)
Apple probably disabled wifi to enable an app writer to make a fix for a profit. Apple did this with the lock screen in iOS 7.0, disabling the ability to see the entire width of the photo you’d like so an app maker could make an app which “properly sized” the photo so you can see it all on your lock screen. This is what happens when you hire previous PC programmers and let them go. Tim Cook is also from that arena, having worked at Compaq and IBM. He is no Steve Jobs.
Hey MDN, if your so fracking smart, why don’t you fix the WIFI issue and tell Apple how to do it.. Really tired of MDN’s lame takes, assuming that Apple can wave a magic wand because of size and resources and all will be right with the world, Get real. Its never the simple and never has been.
Early adopters have always been the final Beta testers for every company. As the OS gets more complex there will always be more issues. You probably can’t display in scientific notation on a calculator based on an Intel i5 or i7 the total number of combinations of things that can go wrong with all of the combinations of hardware, software, and settings on all users machines, let alone be able to test them all. If you upgrade early, you will help them (or any other company that makes machines of this complexity) troubleshoot the fraction of a percent of potential problems. That is and always will be the price of being an early adopter of a new version of complex software. If you really want to try out the new stuff, rig up another boot drive with the old OS so you can do things normally while you help them debug. Apple isn’t any different than any other seller of things this complex.