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Looks like it will be Monday, ton of updates to do and get apple fitness plus figured out on the same day.. hopefully there isn't a ton of issues because they releasing both on the same day.
Well sorta called it. There WAS a release today and it was sorta the release version (maybe) ?
I hope it fixes the Car Play Bug. Maybe they don't know and nothing will change. That feels like par for the course on Apple These days.
Even though I had iOS 14.0 RC installed, I got the official version of iOS 14.0 (or was it 14.1?) without removing beta profile. I believe this is the point of RC vs GM -- not just a name change.
iOS 14 had a GM version, not RC. The change comes with ios 14.2, and the RC version is rarely seen as the public version. I see Apple very lost in the software issue, I do not see iOS as solid as before, and it seems that it is getting worse and worse.
14 is no where near as bad as 13 and 13 was nowhere near as bad as 11 so progress is being made.
We've had more than 1 GM for a release in the past, so why is this different? Also, you do realise Apple have stated that they have dropped the GM name for RC?
It's a very simple theory. More features mean more code changes which lead to unstability. Fewer features, more stable.
very much depends on how apple try to market their newest hardware.
very much depends on how apple try to market their newest hardware.
And the more apps that developers come up with that they expect/want to work with Apple’s new software and hardware will multiply the potential issues exponentially.
If there is a carrier update needed they can push that separately without needing a new iOS version or build.
I've been using betas for many years, especially in custom roms on Android, where the RC version was a beta almost for the final release, but the official release never coincides with it, a small final correction was always added. The grace of the GM version is that if it was construction for final release, where it has not coincided only because of the appearance of serious errors, but that has happened on rare occasions. If tomorrow Apple releases a version 14.3 with a build 18C67 or later, for me it means that Appe has signed up to this way of carrying out the development of its operating system, which does not have to be bad at all. The problem is that in the face of a massive release, and being an untested build, depending on the depth of the changes, there is a risk that people will fail things, but obviously this is my personal way of seeing it.
We are no longer having GMs anymore. As per Apple’s statement. They’re using the term RC going forwards.
Been beta testing some form of software since the first Windows. I personally don’t pay any attention to what it’s called RC, GM or any other name you want to assign to it. It’s all in “test” until it’s released to the general user. That’s when the real testing begins. And then we move on to the next stage of whatever someone calls it.
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. See you guys at 10:00 PST.
. See you guys at 10:00 PST.