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Originally Posted by pwalker8
For the most part, I rarely defend Apple programmers. I do, on the other hand, understand how the process of generating and testing code works. Beta code is called beta for a reason. It's going to have bugs. The point of beta testing is to find and remove bugs. Major issues with release software? That's a big problem.
As far as the current iPadOS software, all I can say is that I've had no problems with it and have been using it rather extensively since it was released. Other people might be having problems, but for the most part I haven't heard of any major issues.
If your point is that Apple should permit users to roll back to the previous version for a longer period of time, then I absolutely agree with you. I think you should always be able to roll back to the previous version.
Poking around a bit, I suspect maybe you misunderstand what they are saying when it's reported that they have stopped signing iPadOS 13.x. You can still downgrade to pre iPadOS 13, you just can't go from iPadOS 13.2 back to iPadOS 13.0.
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MacRumors article on Oct 4:
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Following the release of iOS 13.1.2 on Monday, Apple has stopped signing several previous versions of iOS, preventing downgrades to these earlier versions. iOS versions no longer being signed include iOS 12.4.1, iOS 13.0, and iOS 13.1.1, while iOS 13.1 remains signed for the time being.
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And according to
IPSW iOS 12.4.1 and earlier are no longer signed by Apple for the iPad Pro 9.7-inch WiFi (my iPad model). So I cannot downgrade via iTunes. Not sure of the other methods, but I'm not willing to brick my only iPad downgrading it through unofficial channels.
Maybe your iPad model is okay with iPadOS, but obviously my iPad Pro 9.7" is having über issues with it as seen in the attached images, and the keyboard issues are pretty bad too, as are selecting text. Numbers is nearly unusable due to the issues with the keyboards and test selection. There is a general flakiness about iPadOS on my iPad, and apparently I’m not alone. Of course some people will see, or not see, what they want to. The screwed up screen format is image one below is a very frequent occurence since installing iPadOS. It never occurred before then.
From 1980s through the first part of the 2000s I worked at IBM, Computer Associates, and BMC Software in their development departments. A release like iPadOS would have caused heads to roll at any of those companies, at least back then.