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Apple Releases macOS 10.14.3, iOS 12.1.3, watchOS 5.1.3, and tvOS 12.1.2 (arstechnica.com)
Apple today pushed software updates for a range of its computing platforms. They are all minor releases that simply offer a few bug fixes and security updates, with no new features -- and there are no new features in any of the beta releases for these versions of the operating systems, either. From a report: iOS 12.1.3 fixes a scrolling bug in Messages, an iPad Pro-specific audio bug, and a graphical error in some photos, and it addresses some CarPlay disconnects experienced by owners of the three new iPhone models released in late 2018. It also fixes two minor bugs related to the company's HomePod smart speaker.
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More of the same unfounded anti-Apple bias from haters in the Slashdot comments. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Apple has largely abandoned it's computer customers. Everything they do is focused on the iPhone. Macs used to be the go-to for any kind of graphical artist. Now they can't even handle most graphics programs well. It's sad that they abandoned their core artist base to suit kids sitting on coffee shops, showing off their Mac accessory.
They are all minor releases that simply offer a few bug fixes and security updates, with no new features -- and there are no new features in any of the beta releases for these versions of the operating systems, either.
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How else can one interpret this, in light of the latest Apple performance?
It's like the writer dosn't understand that Apple just recently released Mojave.
Or in the bitchabouteverything Apple world, each update must be an entirely new operating system?
No Bogaboga, Apple has updates all the time. But the ones between OS changes do indeed tend to be incremental.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
This article has changed my worldview! I've now switch political parties, religion, and my sexual preference!!!
You were looking good until
The windows 10 part. You threw all credibility out the window with that one.
If I install this latest update to fix bugs, it will also install a bunch of crap I have no desire to install. And it will re-enable the undesirable crap that I disabled in each of the previous updates.
I know it's not just iOS; You can no longer get bugs fixed in the existing version without loading up on bugs in the new features, whether it's Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, or whatever. And if you find a feature you do like, the next revision replaces that feature with a "service" to move that feature "into the cloud", so you can be better tracked. And the version after that will make it harder to do it without involving the cloud.
What's the use of having extra storage on your phone for stuff if Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all hell-bent to making you store that stuff on a (for fee) off-device storage service?
Or, is the extra storage to just hang on to the huge links to your content?
The Windows 10 part makes the GPU work and the games play at 4K, 8K.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Thats right. It isnt all crap. In fact none of the core update contain any of the typical junk you would normally expect to find. Of course some are more careful than others about updates. I think the major security updates contain nothing but secure patches but you have to wait for those
That they wanted to put out a bugfix and security release?
I read it as "There are no new features in the production releases, but there weren't any new features in any of the betas up to this point either."
As in, they didn't slip one past the goalie at the last second. Which is good.
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Funny.
Neither my iPhone, my iPad nor my MacBook pro have every forced or even cajoled me to move or store anything in the cloud.
I didn't use iCloud for anything until recently, when I decided I did like to connect them just far enough to sync my bookmarks, and my iMessages between all 3 devices.
But no real need other than that, and I operated them just fine without any iCloud connectivity at all, zero, nada, zilch....just fine for most of my years on the platform until maybe just the past 8-9 months.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
So you never got a prompt to enable Apple Music? Very strange. Mine prompts me to enable it with each and every update since it became available.
Sure, I don't HAVE to enable it and upload my (self-ripped and maintained) music collection to Apple's servers, but it is persistent in asking me to.
"This accessory is not supported" messages for most of my off-brand Lightning cables. Worked before the update, work with all my phones that didn't have the update, don't work now (this is based on the public beta).
Don't want: Skeletal supermodel too slim hardware.
Want: Real computers.
It's like complaining that the monthly updates Microsoft release for Windows don't bring new features. "I don't want bug and security fixes, I want stupid new feature I won't ever use!"
Apple has largely abandoned it's computer customers.
You say that in response to a story about an iOS *and* and macOS update.
If that were not silly enough, it's also just a year after Apple released the iMac Pro, and months after they updated the Mac mini. making it a fairly nice desktop unit for those that want to bring their own monitors.
Macs used to be the go-to for any kind of graphical artist. Now they can't even handle most graphics programs well
That is crazy nuts as the Mac is seeing a resurgence of amazing programs dealing with the graphic arts, from photo to video to vector creations... being an artist on the Mac has never been better.
Also if you were any kind of real artist you would at least be nodding with respect for the combination of the iPad Pro and the Pencil. I think you really don't care about art, you just like to bitch about Apple... what a shame that another creative mind has withered from within due to Hate.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Ditto. It's annoying. iOS v12.1.3's Photos app asked to use iCloud for it in a just upgraded iPhone 6+. No thanks!
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...and release 3 new watch faces!
This has virtually always been the case. Apple rarely introduces new features in 10.x.y releases (y > 0) ; new features are mainly introduced in 10.x.0 releases.
This is a bug fix for an existing OS release. I generally prefer if my OS vendor isn't using a fixpack to introduce significant new features.
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It probably runs well enough on huge specs like this.
The trash can Mac Pro with "factory upgrade" to 64GB RAM and 10 or 12 core CPU should be about similar (add even more money for SSD size) though not only it'll be likely over $3000 more than the PC, it will use more power as well. OR you need a "low end" iMac Pro with 64GB upgrade to match a PC. Granted we've not seen the new upcoming Mac Pro.
In conclusion, what a shit show! It's like going back to the old days of $10,000 high end branded computers and $3,000 beige box PC that did about the same job.
It sucks, but OSX workstations are heading the way of SGI, Sun, HP etc. workstations. They were all killed for good with Windows XP machines that were cheaper and faster
The idiots pushing for more features are the ones crapping up Mac OS with bugs. This is called scope creep. It's been taught to not do this in comp sci courses for decades, the programmers who've all left apple the last 10 years knew this, they got sick of being pushed to scope creep and quit. New guys came in, stupid, young, and broke everything.
That's how it should be. Majors for features and major improvements, point releases for bugfixes and minor improvements.
With the 1 - 2 year lifecycle and the sin of adding features in a point release, Apple are now being inundated with bugs in their OS.
Apple Releases macOS 10.14.3
Not showing up yet in App Store !!
It's like complaining that the monthly updates Microsoft release for Windows don't bring new features. "I don't want bug and security fixes, I want stupid new feature I won't ever use!"
Roger that. Each OS has some things to complain about. Complaining about an incremental update 6 months after an entire OS update is silly.
Here's one for the outrage crew: Last night I got an update, and horrors! it was only for Safari. Nothing else at all.
But the nice thing about it was that I chose the time to do it.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.