Originally Posted By: Mike Halloran
Originally Posted By: Matt N
... as the new OS is now in the hands of early adopters, who get to pick whether to use the new OS or BIAB....


No it is not.

It's in the hands of developers. No one in their right mind would install the first developer beta of any OS onto a machine where actual work needs to be done.

Except for people whose "actual work" involves e.g. updating apps for said new OS.

And for the most part, this group knows that there are various hitches involved in running on such new OS releases. So these are more likely to be more tolerant of initial glitches than the next waves of users.

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I agree that they should have done this in 2012 or 2015...

Technically, they could have started even a bit earlier than that. I think everything they'd need was in place by 2009.

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Now that the 10.15 beta is out, it makes perfect sense not to release BIAB 2019 till PG Music knows it's going to work.

I don't think anybody is arguing for them to release a version not known to work reliably. But internal testing has its limits, and for major changes like this, it's likely that their first release will have a number of issues, and the sooner they'll learn about these, the better.

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BTW, I have an Apple Developer's account and spent some time at the WWDC this week. So far, nothing runs well in the current beta if at all... as usual... but worse.

For professional reasons, I tend to switch most of my usage to each year's beta OS starting around WWDC. I'm sure that the end of 32 bit support will cause more issues than usual this year, but apart from that, the OS seems in comparative relative shape to past years at the same time.