You have necessarily heard that Apple announced a number of things last night in San Francisco. iOS 9, the latest version of the mobile operating system reserved for the iPhone and iPad, was one of those ads, as was the case with watchOS 2 for Apple Watch. Both represent significant leaps forward for their respective platforms, but they are not quite ready to be put in the hands of the public. Yet this has not prevented Apple to launch a beta program for each OS, iOS and 9 watchOS 2.
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The public beta for iOS 9 is the more imminent and more formal of the two . Apple has launched a dedicated website to join the program, and the process could not be simpler. Simply log in with your Apple ID and password, to accept the conditions of the program, and wait for the download instructions by e-mail.
It supports different devices: iPhone 6 More iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPad 1 and Air 2, iPad Mini 1-3, 3rd and 4th generation iPad, and 5th generation iPod Touch.
The process of beta for WatchOS is a bit more tricky. Apple launches preview version today, but restricts downloads to "members of the development community," which implies that you will need to be a registered member and pay the Apple developer program . The company says that the public release of watchOS 2 will happen "this fall".
The updates will be distributed through both the traditional OTA (Over The Air) and the iOS Dev Center .
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The objective of Apple with these beta versions is twofold: reducing illegal sharing of pre-releases, and rely on a larger user base . Historically, new iOS versions have always been plagued by bugs leaks, and even spawned a black market to recover an Apple Developer ID.
Apple obviously wants to get feedback from a larger number of users to the new features it introduces within iOS. Two in particular Proactive and Transit, make extensive use of information such as e-mails, calendar entries, or the location data, and are scenarios that may be difficult to simulate without broad data pool.
Apple is not the only company to turn to the crowd to test new products. Microsoft released its next major release of Windows, Windows 10, at the end of last year. The Redmond company has asked users throughout the program, with some saying that the company has shaped aspects of the user experience of the final product because of them.
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The public beta for iOS 9 is the more imminent and more formal of the two . Apple has launched a dedicated website to join the program, and the process could not be simpler. Simply log in with your Apple ID and password, to accept the conditions of the program, and wait for the download instructions by e-mail.
It supports different devices: iPhone 6 More iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPad 1 and Air 2, iPad Mini 1-3, 3rd and 4th generation iPad, and 5th generation iPod Touch.
The updates will be distributed through both the traditional OTA (Over The Air) and the iOS Dev Center .
Have a maximum Returns
The objective of Apple with these beta versions is twofold: reducing illegal sharing of pre-releases, and rely on a larger user base . Historically, new iOS versions have always been plagued by bugs leaks, and even spawned a black market to recover an Apple Developer ID.
Apple is not the only company to turn to the crowd to test new products. Microsoft released its next major release of Windows, Windows 10, at the end of last year. The Redmond company has asked users throughout the program, with some saying that the company has shaped aspects of the user experience of the final product because of them.