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OS X Yosemite Public Beta

Apple has officially kicked off OS X Yosemite Public Beta program. The first million who have registered for the Beta Program should be getting an email from Apple anytime now.

Before you install OS X Yosemite Beta 1, please consider the followings:

  • Do you really need to install OS X Yosemite Beta 1?
    OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 4 is a stable build, but not without bugs.
    Expect the same from OS X Yosemite Beta 1, bug-wise.
  • Should you insist that you still want to install OS X Yosemite Beta 1, please do not install it on your sole Mac. Unless you have a second drive to install it on. If not install it on a different partition.
  • Once again, there are bugs in this beta release. Be kind to report the bugs to Apple; after all, that’s the purpose of this public beta.
  • No, this Public Beta will never make you cooler than before. You will not gain any popularities. You will not suddenly become more desirable by the opposite or the same gender.

OS X Yosemite Beta Program The Wait

If you haven’t gotten the email and feeling impatient, head to https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ and log in using your Apple ID; the one you registered OS X Beta Program with.

Should you see the message below, DO NOT PANIC! It seems that Apple has cut-off access to the download temporarily.

OS X Beta Program Offline for Maintenance

Should you be one of the first million to register for OS X Yosemite Public Beta, you should see a welcome message.

OS X Yosemite Beta Program Now Live

At the bottom of the page, you will be able to request a redemption code of OS X Yosemite Public Beta.

OS X Yosemite Public Beta Redemption

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Phil Schiller confirms OS X Yosemite Public Beta is coming on July 24, 2014

The news broke and many sites reported that OS X Yosemite Public Beta is coming on Thursday, July 24, 2014.

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller tweeted:

OS X Yosemite. Beta Program. Tomorrow! :->
https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/
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OS X Yosemite Public Beta is limited to the first one million people who sign up. Should you be interested to sign up, you should have signed up back in June right after during WWDC 2014.

OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 4 build 14A298i is quite stable, but not without some serious bugs. With that in mind, it is highly recommended to install OS X Yosemite Beta on a secondary Mac or on its own partition/drive.

Phil Schiller OS X Yosemite Beta

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Apple Reports 2014 Third Quarter Results

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Apple reports financial results for its fiscal 2014 third quarter ended June 28, 2013.

CUPERTINO, California—July 22, 2014—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 third quarter ended June 28, 2014. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $37.4 billion and quarterly net profit of $7.7 billion, or $1.28 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $35.3 billion and net profit of $6.9 billion, or $1.07 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 39.4 percent compared to 36.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 59 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Apple’s board of directors has declared a cash dividend of $.47 per share of the Company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on August 14, 2014, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on August 11, 2014.

  • 2012 Q3: 17 Millions of iPad sold
    iPad 3 was released on March 16, 2012
  • 2013 Q3: 14.6 Million of iPad sold
    iPad mini and iPad 4 were released on November 2, 2012
  • 2014 Q3: 13.3 Millions of iPad sold
    iPad Air was released on November 1, 2013
    iPad mini with Retina Display was released on November 12, 2013

Mac sales were up 17.6 percent to 4.4 million units, compared to 3.8 million units in the same quarter previous year.

iPhone sales were up 12.7 percent to 35.2 million units, compared to 31.2 million units in the same quarter previous year.

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Swift Blog for Apple Developer

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Apple has launched Swift Blog for Apple Developer.

This new blog will bring you a behind-the-scenes look into the design of the Swift language by the engineers who created it, in addition to the latest news and hints to turn you into a productive Swift programmer.

Get started with Swift by downloading Xcode 6 beta, now available to all Registered Apple Developers for free. The Swift Resources tab has a ton of great links to videos, documentation, books, and sample code to help you become one of the world’s first Swift experts. There’s never been a better time to get coding!

– The Swift Team

Previously Xcode 6 beta was available only to paying Developers.