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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.
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.
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?
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.
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