Further to Sieghard's excellent message, if anyone wants to explore what's involved in taking the plunge and testing iOS, I produced a webinar on this subject last year and you can still purchase the MP3 archive. It's at http://mosen.org/index.php/testing-testing-mosen-consulting-ios-webinar/ Personally I encourage anyone who is willing to accept that there'll be bugs, and who is good at clearly articulating to Apple what problems they're having and what causes them, to give it a go. The more capable people we have feeding back at this stage of the process, the more we may benefit through bugs being squashed before release. That said, any software company has to prioritise bugs, so some may just not make being fixed before the final cut. Happy testing. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
On 6/06/2014, at 12:11 am, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Krister, > > You have to be a registered developer to install iOS Beta software. If you > are you can download the Beta from the Apple developer center, if you are > not a registered developer (it costs $99 a year) you should probably not > attempt this; in any case, Cara and Raul will kick your butt if you are not > a developer and are posting questions or comments to the list regarding > running an iOS Beta and if you are a developer you can't post because you > would have agreed to an NDA which means a "Non-Disclosure Agreement" > according to which you agreed not to tell anybody about any features of Beta > software that is not accessible to the public. > Apple announced that the are going to offer a public beta for the new OSX 10 > operating system, but there is no public beta for iOS. > > Now, even if you do have a developer account I would highly discourage you > to install a first Beta. They are usually really meant for developers only > as they will have lots of bugs and often are not even close to being feature > complete. For example, Apple said the Alex voice is coming to the iPhone and > I assume this means it will be available as a US English Voiceover voice. > Now, it may very well be that in a first or even second Beta this may not > even be there. If I remember correctly iOS 7 had 5 Beta versions between the > announcement at the beginning of June last year and its release in mid > September and unless you are developing apps and need the iOS 8 environment > for testing, it's best to wait at least until Beta 3. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Krister Ekstrom > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 2:01 AM > To: macvisionar...@googlegroups.com > Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Trying to install IOs 8 and fail > > Hi and sorry for cross posting but this stupid question of mine conserns > both the Mac and the IPhone. I'm trying to install the new IOS8 beta to see > how accessibility is and am failing miserably because i get an error message > saying the file with the firmware isn't compatible. Now i know that the > firmware i downloaded is compatible with my device, the IPhone GSM model, > and still Itunes complains over incompatibility so i think that it's the > ITunes version that's not the latest one, and i can't find it anywhere, so > is there somewhere i can look for a beta version of ITunes? > Thanks so much in advance. > /Krister > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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