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Is the public beta not supposed to be released today?
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OS X Yosemite - Developer Preview 3
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Just remember the time zone difference please. Just because it will be released on the 24th on July doesn't mean it will still be the 24th here by the time it gets released.
Where does one download the public beta from? App store?
Yes, but remember, Apple runs on West coast time
they are sending mails out for it. you had to sign up for it.
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And iOS 8 public preview?
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nope to devs only
lol really? Mavericks had over 90% adoption rate and that was free and as well files was 5GB each. I am pretty sure that Apples server can handle the load and sure they have elastic computing power so can upscale and downscale when needed.
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Thats exactly what I was saying, Mavericks was a 5.3gb update. I was just wondering to what capacity are their servers stretched when a big release like this comes out. And obviously they do make a lot of effort into making it possible since I don't know of any cases where they had failures such as BlackBerry when BBM came out for instance. Millions downloaded an app and their servers failed epicly, but when millions download a whole new operating system, then sh*t just got serious.
They use Akamai. Akamai basically caches the files in each region or country they have presence in so the load is spread out over thousands of data centers.
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it is easy dude. AWS (Amazon Web services)
Basically allows you to use cloud computing and can upgrade and downgrade as you wish. setup after a instance goes over 60% usage for instance it would automatically create a new one. it is very simple. I have as well AWS account so can test my dev stuff online without huge server costs.
apple run basically same kind of service. and then they just pay for what they use. it very simple method.
hope that was informative. if not then google is your friend
that seems accurate enough. and that is as well reason you can download it so fast because it is closer and more local data being pulled.
believe Akamai as well use it kind of AWS like service. MS have own version as well yeah. caching and creating servers on the fly makes you redundant and less like RIM which doesnt foresee the demand at all clearly.
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Got my email yesterday. Not sure if I should switch between Developer Preview and get the Public Beta.
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Read that DP previews will receive more updates, makes sense I guess so Im sticking with DP4 for now.
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So all the bugs in the Yosemite beta allows us OSX users to have a similar experience to what regular Windows8 users face on a daily basis 
So all the bugs in the Yosemite beta allows us OSX users to have a similar experience to what regular Windows8 users face on a daily basis
what similar experiences are you referring to? I havent had one issue with any app yet. no UI problems for me. no random stuff just happening.
I run Win8 at office and yea it is bad. just do best to avoid windows key function or start menu. isnt hard at all.
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I was just trolling. I think the OS X public beta will cause many issues as your typical OS X user is not a "tinkerer" and Apple has now made it very easy for the average user to download and install the beta. As nice as Yosemite looks, I give it a pass this time around - had a painful experience last time with VMWare clutching out and half the development tooling not working (yes, I typically go "balls-to-the-wall" with OS beta's and don't run them in a sandbox).
HAHAHA oh geez...
Yeah I have a friend that works at istore. night before I warned him that his going to get bunch of noobs that screw the install up or something and yeah public beta isnt always the best. But to check loads on server it is good idea. can estimate traffic then. Maybe also to see where main issue are.
you need broad spectrum of people to test not only devs I think mainly. It like telkom doing trails in area where no one tests the upload speeds. I am having issues at moment with this where I upload regularly 10GB+ to google drive. telkoms line just fails when comes to upload. I go to a client and use their fibre line instead. but they need to test normal consumers and as well heavy users... like me (telkom if you read this, please).
I understand what they trying to achieve.
Yosemite working 100% for me so far.