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iOS 17 Speculation Thread
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Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Apple announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store impacting developers’ apps in the EU to comply with the DMA.
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Just described as available in March.
Are people basing this on the following rumor:
Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Apple announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store impacting developers’ apps in the EU to comply with the DMA.www.apple.com
Just described as available in March.
Are people basing this on the following rumor:
Right now, assuming a 2 week (likely 12 day) interval between beta 1 and 2 followed by 1 week release intervals, that works out to 4 betas + a release candidate before a public release on most likely March 4. I don’t see any reason why this would need to be pushed out any farther than that.
In this case, the European Union has set a deadline and it is exceedingly unlikely that Apple is going to thumb their nose at that and risk a large fine by missing that deadline by two weeks. They certainly aren’t going to do so because their beta schedule doesn’t meet the expectations of some poster on MacRumors forums.
Too many posters on this site rely on feelings and emotions when making predictions about the timing of future releases.
Stick with data. You won’t be sorry.
The only thought to go with that is devs have adequate time to learn, implement these new options available today.
The only thought to go with that is devs have adequate time to learn, implement these new options available today.
I have faith in the development community that they can master this in the roughly 6-7 weeks between now and March 4th.
I really can’t believe it will require that much. My team has no EU app requirements, so I could care less.
well then why was 16.4 released on the 27th last year? usually they try to keep their releases on the same timeline
One of the reasons is that they released the first beta of 16.4 almost a month late (around mid-February) when compared to the first beta of 17.4. Therefore, the schedule for the following beta and public releases also shifted.
Of course, there are likely even more reasons why they did it. As mentioned above by one of the forum users - stick with data. This year we are likely to get 17.4 on the 4th/5th of March.
17.4 appears to be a major update shows next gen Carplay, gamer mode, some association with new upcoming iPad design. Apple says devs can now submit apps for game streaming services. That means Xbox Game Pass streaming and GeForce Now, for example, will no longer need to be accessed through frustrating progressive web apps. Other changes are podcast transcription and Siri translation changes so you can work with multiple languages messages you receive.
Apple introduces new options worldwide for streaming game services and apps that provide access to mini apps and games - Latest News - Apple Developer
New analytics reports coming in March for developers everywhere Developers can also enable new sign-in options for their apps Today, Apple is introducing new options for how apps globally can deliver in-app experiences to users, including streaming games and mini-programs. Developers can now...
Note the size of the installer it was 6.42 Gb, and it was build 21e5184i. Note the higher end letter at the start. So we can guess this beta cycle might be at least 5 betas. This is based on additional features discovered after the side loading which by itself is a major change, along with being able to use different web browsers (non WebKit engines in EU).
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^ The option for worldwide streaming game services in iOS/IPadOS 17.4 beta also was because of a like Vision Pro/Vision OS beta cycle needing not to be constrained to only Apple Arcade vs Mac with several streaming services availability. We wouldn't want to hurt the VP sales would we?
I love headlines like this one!
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iOS 18 Potentially 'Biggest' Software Update in iPhone's History
Apple has big plans for iOS 18, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In the subscriber-only Q&A section of his Power On newsletter today,...
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I love headlines like this one!
iOS 18 Potentially 'Biggest' Software Update in iPhone's History
Apple has big plans for iOS 18, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In the subscriber-only Q&A section of his Power On newsletter today,...
The same crap is peddled out every single year isn’t it? And each year it is just another iterative upgrade full of bugs!
Beg to differ. Gurman usually is pretty accurate in his iOS predictions. He’s never said anything remotely like this before.
I hope you are both right. However I bet you aren’t.
We (you and I) could both be right. It might have groundbreaking new features and design and still not work right!
We (you and I) could both be right. It might have groundbreaking new features and design and still not work right!
#TrueStory
Unless you subscribe there is only the Q&A questions. Nothing in article that is news really. Same rumors and speculation about EU changes.I love headlines like this one!
iOS 18 Potentially 'Biggest' Software Update in iPhone's History
Apple has big plans for iOS 18, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In the subscriber-only Q&A section of his Power On newsletter today,...
Yup, every iphone is the "Best iphone yet" and every iOS release is the "Best release so far" But in reality its tiny incremental changes that Apple keeps feeding us to keep us on the hamster wheel.
We (you and I) could both be right. It might have groundbreaking new features and design and still not work right!
Sorry to burst any bubbles, but...
...It might also just come in at 10 gigs, THE BIGGEST SOFTWARE UPDATE in iPhones history! and still be true to headline 🤣😆
Alternative idea. It might not only come at 10 gigs, but also drop support for iPhones starting from Xs to 13 Series and be the biggest device support drop in iPhone history🤣
