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According to sites like Arstechnica who have got to use the build for a while it has plenty of lock ups and hard crashes. Many features you saw demoed in the k
by Game_Ender 15y ago
According to sites like Arstechnica who have got to use the build for a while it has plenty of lock ups and hard crashes. Many features you saw demoed in the keynote are also not ready for release so they are not in the preview build either.
The point is, it's far being shippable, and if you can't ship it, it's not "real".
- CJCorona 15y agothat's not any different from when Apple released developer previews of Lion and iOS5. Are we seriously arguing over the 'finished' state of a developer build? Really?
- ethank 15y agoNo, what is being discussed is using a developer build of a very alpha-state software as a comparison point against something released that has tens of millions of devices in the market.
- pyre 15y agoGruber's argument started out as a criticism of Paul Thurott's comment that Windows 8 was the death knell for the iPad, but then he goes off into comparing Microsoft's and Apple's corporate release strategies... The criticism of the "Windows 8 kills iPad" comments is fair, but trying to group these tech pundits under the 'Windows' banner and use it to criticize Microsoft as a company is faulty logic at best (and purposely deceptive at worst).