<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>It hasn't been released yet, but I'm only slightly breaking the rules by saying that the areas they are concentrating on are these, so hope is there if your major bugs are in these areas:</div><div><br></div><div><p class="s1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr; "><span class="s0">- AirPort</span><span class="s0"><br></span></p><p class="s1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr; "><span class="s0">- AppKit</span><span class="s0"><br></span></p><p class="s1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr; "><span class="s0">- GraphicsDrivers</span><span class="s0"><br></span></p><p class="s1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr; "><span class="s0">- iCal</span><span class="s0"><br></span></p><p class="s1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr; "><span class="s0">- iChat</span><span class="s0"><br></span></p><p class="s1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr; "><span class="s0">- Mac App Store</span><span class="s0"><br></span></p><p class="s1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr; "><span class="s0">- Mail</span><span class="s0"><br></span></p><p class="s1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr; "><span class="s0">- Spotlight</span><span class="s0"><br></span></p><p class="s1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr; "><span class="s0">- Time Machine</span><span class="s0"><br></span></p><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="s0" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">That certainly covers the bits I'm most concerned about.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="s0" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="s0" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">*** Please do not quote that list of areas anywhere else. ***</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="s0" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="s0" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Whether anything is going to happen about the huge app startup time I sometimes suffer from on multiple machines, I don't know. But I hope they will improve it. Watching an app icon bounce in the Dock for 30 seconds or so when I start the app is not encouraging, particularly as the system is totally quiet during the whole delay.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="s0" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="s0" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">But it provides hope for the big Time Machine problems I've been having, for which they are definitely following up my bug report (even to the extent of asking if anything odd happened on or around July 6th!).</span></div><br>-- <div>Jules</div></div><br /><img src="cid:julessig.png">
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