From InfoWorld: Apple yesterday released the third public beta of OS X Yosemite, shipping the preview a few days earlier than expected.
The update, labeled build "14A361p," accompanied the debut of the eighth developer preview, also on Monday. The latter was available only to registered developers, who pay $99 annually for access to pre-release software so that they can begin building new apps and modify existing ones for what Apple also calls OS X 10.10.
This week's eighth developer preview and third public beta are nearly identical in content and operation. The former was tagged as build "14A361c."
Last month, Computerworld forecast that Apple would release the third public beta on Thursday, Sept. 18, assuming that the last two builds exposed a pattern of issuing the public beta three days after every other developer preview.
The slight change of timing may mean little or nothing, or could signal that Apple plans on squeezing one more public beta into the process before it locks down the code for a "gold master," or GM, the final pre-release version that is, for all intents, the polished code which will be offered to all.
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