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I was sure that Apple sent some comms out about it. Most tech/IT companies and departments have a Christmas amnesty period, putting things on hold, simply due to holidays over the Christmas period. Don’t expect to see anything until after New Years.
They posted that App Store Connect will be down from 12/23 to 12/27. But that's different than the OS team.
There should be no expectation that Apple would need to notify its users or developers that the development teams might get time off over the holidays. Why would anyone need to be notified?
Additionally, if Apple were to release an update this week, and that update had some severe bug, they would then need to have more support and development staff available to handle it over the holidays. It's the smart thing to do to not have a release of any kind this week.
Ideally no one needs to notify anyone for anything. its ultimately business sense to send mails.
but it’s been customary for apple to send intimations to developers whenever there has been long gaps in the arrangements. This includes intimations they sent for thanks giving week holidays. going by your logic they should not have sent any mail intimating their thanks giving holiday break.
If the iOS team is on Christmas holidays for the full two weeks, how do we expect any releases this week.
iOS beta history for New Year!
So Apple could release another beta early January...
- 3 January -- iOS 11.2.5 beta 3, watchOS 4.2.2 beta 3 and tvOS 11.2.5 beta 3 released.
- 7 January -- iOS 12.1.3 beta 3, tvOS 12.1.2 beta 3 and watchOS 5.1.3 beta 3 released.
- 17 January -- iOS/iPadOS 13.3.1 beta 2, tvOS 13.3.1 beta 2 and watchOS 6.1.2 beta 2 released.
Ugh. Let's just hope we're not waiting until the 18th or 19th for beta 2. My phone is behaving but that itch for an update never really goes away.
They do need a week or two after vacation get their stuff together
What I though so also I got after New Years some updates before ,
anyay I’m thank full for anything anyway doesn’t matter when and where they do their best. It is what it is
3rd is rather early, but it shows that releases can happen in that first week of the year.
Where do you come up with this stuff?
Why? Remember, their own internal betas are 2-3 weeks ahead of what is released to the public.