Apple tapped developers to begin testing a fifth pre-release version of its iCloud cloud computing service software for new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion operating system alongside the first external beta of Mac OS X 10.7.2 and Apple is requiring developers to install Mac OS X 10.7.2 build 11C26 in order to use iCloud beta 5, but has yet to provide developers with any information of test builds of Mac OS X 10.7.1. Developers who’ve installed Mac OS X 10.7.2 and iCloud beta 5 note that the software updates Lion’s Mail, Contacts & Calendars control panel and Apple plans to formally roll out iCloud for both OS X Lion and iOS 5.0 sometime this fall……………
Following the successful public release of OS X 10.7 Lion to the general public last week, Apple has seeded OS X 10.7.2 to developers and OS X 10.7.2 was made available alongside the developer release of iCloud Beta 5 for Lion which is also currently undergoing developer testing. In a rather unusual move, Apple has asked its developers to download and install the Mac OS X 10.7.2 build 11C26 in order to be able to run and test the iCloud service, whereas no information regarding the 10.7.1 Mac OS X update has been offered by the company as yet. “You must install OS X Lion 10.7.2 in order to use iCloud for OS X Lion beta 5. This pre-release version of OS X Lion is being provided solely for testing iCloud,” Apple is said to have told its software developers. The update Mac OS X 10.7.2 does not offer any support or solutions to present flaws in the Lion operating system 10.7 which was released on Wednesday last week. Sources with knowledge of the product have revealed that Apple will release the first beta update to address the present glitches in the coming days or maybe weeks.
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If the release of a buggy, annoying, bloated, slow, unreliable OS a success, Apple’s release of Lion was a thundering success. If you actually have to use your Mac to accomplish work, and I do not consider updating your stupid Facebook page work, unless you happen to be a witless pre pubescent high school girl, than the release was a major step backwards. This system is so bad even the legions of mindless fan boys are unable to find good words for it. It has now been out over a year and Apple has yet to fix the major faults. A couple of updates have been released, but neither has made any significance difference. The apps and system itself crash constantly. The system is unbearably slow, and many apps that ran fine under Snow Leopard, do not run at all under LIon.