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by wwweston 3551 days ago
> Ideally QA begins while the OS update is still in beta.

Would help a lot if (a) Apple had longer lead times to actually get things right internally before they went to beta and (b) beta cycles were a bit longer and (c) companies didn't have to do this every damn year.

On the other side... what are the benefits of having yearly regimented releases again?

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> what are the benefits of having yearly regimented releases again?

It's what consumers expect. If Apple ditched the yearly upgrade model there'd probably be a shitstorm of bad PR and people complaining about how it's not just their hardware offerings that are getting out of date, now the OS is too.