New releases always late?

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One thing I really hate about new releases, monthly updates etc. is that they always come too late in the day.

I am stuck at home with COVID at the moment, so playing with the new Apple OS releases today would brighten things up… But I’m guessing they won’t appear before late evening, here in Europe.

It is the same with announcements, they always come in the late evening, so I rarely watch the release events, but have to wait for the next day for recaps.

Patch “Wednesday” is the same, on Windows, the patches never arrive on a Tuesday for me at work, I have to update WSUS first thing on Wednesday with the new patches.

Why don’t they release the patches on the midnight line, so that it is available when people wake up in the morning? Or, say, 08:00 in Australia, then everybody gets it on the day of release, when it is still daytime for them?

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9am Cupertino time shouldn’t be when the OSes drop, I agree

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You’re not gonna love this hot take @big_D : I think the world should run on New York time hahah. Everything should be midnight EST :3

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6 pm updates suit me, actually. Otherwise, I’d spend all morning playing with an update rather than doing the stuff I should be doing.

Is the macOS update due today, too?

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Yup. All of the mare due today

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Well for security patches, there is not way to safely pick a schedule that is convenient for all locations. The hackers are not going to wait, so if they find they could get the patch info 12 hours earlier by VPNing to whatever, then that’s what they’ll do.

As for feature releases, I guess it’s a matter of the ease of the release. The company doesn’t want to hear stuff like “Australia always gets it first” any more than they want to hear how @big_D suffers because he’s not in a convenient time zone compared to the release window. I would ask you @big_D if a European software company releases in your time zone? It may just be the case that most of the software you want to play with is from companies who have release headquarters in USA or elsewhere that is not the best time zone to please your schedule.

Also, have pity on me :slight_smile: I want the newest Java, which will be released tomorrow (Sep 16th) from Oracle, but I refuse to abide by Oracle’s license, so I have to wait for Adoptium to release their version of the OpenJDK, and they won’t even start building it until it’s officially release by Oracle. This usually means I have to wait a whole week or more. (I’ll wait for you to get out your tiny violin :face_with_tongue: )

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From Google Gemini:

Apple releases new software updates, like operating systems, on a consistent schedule, typically starting around 10:00 AM Pacific Time (PT) in the United States, which translates to 1:00 PM Eastern Time (ET). The update is then rolled out globally, making it available at different local times around the world.
Why this time?
This timing allows Apple’s U.S.-based support and engineering teams to be available to handle any immediate issues or questions as the software becomes available to the public.
This provides a global staggered release, so users worldwide receive the update, rather than a single, massive simultaneous rollout.

That was my guess. The language that the AI uses sounds much more official.

Sorry you’re home with COVID. A US friend who was just been in Paris just became infected for the first time. Keep those Vitamin D levels up!

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One man’s late is another man’s on time. I hate having to get up at 06:00 to watch certain F1 races, but I’m sure you don’t mind a noon start time.

I suppose when an Australian company makes software that the world wants then maybe we’ll see 08:00 AES releases, but until then we all live by PT.

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I haven’t watched F1 for years, but I also watched Moto GP, much more interesting, and both were at random times, Australian and Asian GPs were in the early hours (before 04:00) and the South American GPs were late at night .

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If we were to [hypothetically] watch those F1 races hours later on demand, would anyone care? Would we be ridiculed for not watching the races in real time?

If we watch “Jeopardy” the next day on streaming, is it still “Jeopardy”?

Hypothetical questions, of course. I’m not admitting anything.

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Asking for a friend :wink:

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Certainly no ridicule, but spoilers are killer! If people aren’t messaging me to talk about the race, I’ll surely hit spoilers on my RSS or social feeds.

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That one’s easy. F1 is still rather esoteric in the US; friends are not interested. And I don’t have anything in my RSS feed about F1. I could run across a stray article on ESPN, but that never seems to happen.

[I am pleased to see Red Bull in 4th Place in the team standings. Poor Yuki!]

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