Re: How Apple tests is OS releases

Jim wrote:
In article <47239f72$0$32564$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John wrote:
Steve de Mena wrote:
John wrote:
Tommy wrote:
With Apple especially, it pays to hesitate to jump on the bandwagon.
Long gone are the days when Apple's operating systems spends months in
the hands of real testers. Now, so that Microsoft won't steal Apple's
features, very little testing seems to take place. At least that is
the justification we hear. I don't think it has much to do with
anything other than this is way Apple wants to do it.

Perhaps there is a good reason for the lack of end user testing but
what it means is that developers probably test for how their
application works, and there are few real world testers who have a
combination of applications that might be more typical of actual
users.

The usual Apple way to fix this, and they do a good job of it, is to
throw the operating system over the wall, have it snapped up by the
restless natives while working hard to get updates ready to fix the
major problems which are usually identified when it hits the hands of
those real users.

From pro-Mac http://viewfromthemountain.typepad.com/applepeels/


Three installs, ZERO problems!
I suspect if you had problems you wouldn't tell us.

Steve

Of course I would. So far the only |"problem" I have seen today is that repairing permissions takes longer than it used to. It works, just takes twice as long. I am sure Apple will work on it and fix it within the next six weeks unlike Microsoft performance where it would be fixed in the next year and a half.
Do you use Wireless? On both my upgrades on my MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 15" (I tested it first on a cloned external drive) Airport was turned off after the upgrade. When it asked for my .Mac info, etc, it failed as there was no network. I turned it back on and then it was OK. Not sure why it turned that off.

Steve

So that an automatic upgrade wouldn't try and start during your upgrade?

Why wouldn't you want the airport off during an upgrade as in Tiger --> Leopard?


This is when the upgrade has finished and it reboots and asks you for your .Mac info and for registration. Both these tasks REQUIRE network connectivity. I had to click in the airport icon at the top and "Turn Airport On" so that it could connect.

Steve
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