{"id":1694,"date":"2011-02-28T07:20:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2011-03-02T04:45:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T12:45:55","slug":"lion-preview-release-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"Is Lion Preview Release a Disaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/lion_preview_022811\/lion.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nTOKYO (MacHouse) &#8211; A few days ago, <strong>Apple, Inc. <\/strong> (hereby, Apple) has released the first preview version of Mac OS X Lion for developers.  Those who have signed up for one of the developer&#8217;s programs should have received an e-mail message for this notification.  (See Screenshot 1.)<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"440\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/lion_preview_022811\/lion_preview_release.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/lion_preview_022811\/lion_preview_release.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"275\" alt=\"Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview\" \/><\/a><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 1 &#8211; Source: MacHouse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nIf you pay close attention to what&#8217;s going on in the past few days at the <strong>Developer Forums<\/strong>, there are quite a number of topics under the <strong>Installation<\/strong> section.  In fact, there have been 16 pages of them at the time of writing this article.  (See Screenshot 2.)  Many claim that they cannot redeem the coupon they&#8217;ve received.  Some say they cannot download the preview copy.  Others say the download process stopped in the middle.  They also say the Finder will constantly crash.  &nbsp; <!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"440\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/lion_preview_022811\/lion_preview_release_installation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/lion_preview_022811\/lion_preview_release_installation.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"275\" alt=\"Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview\" \/><\/a><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 2 &#8211; Source: Apple, Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nBy the way, this preview version is released at <strong>Mac App Store<\/strong>.  It looks like Apple, Inc. has violated its won submission guidelines.  According to the company,<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n2.1 Apps that crash will be rejected<br \/>\n2.2 Apps that exhibit bugs will be rejected<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nSo how did this preview version of OS X Lion end up getting approved in the first place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (MacHouse) &#8211; A few days ago, Apple, Inc. (hereby, Apple) has released the first preview version of Mac OS X Lion for developers. Those who have signed up for one of the developer&#8217;s programs should have received an e-mail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=1694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}