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发帖数: 3492 | 1 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:45:18 PDT
As noted by Cult of Mac, Apple has removed references to the Messages for
Mac beta that the company released for OS X Lion in mid-February to provide
a preview of the functionality coming in OS X Mountain Lion.
There’s still a Messages for Mac link at the bottom of Apple’s Downloads
page — as you can see below — but again, it just redirects to the Mac OS X
page, where a Messages beta cannot be found.
It’s likely that Apple is now happy with how beta testing has gone, and
that it has already prepared a final release that will launch alongside
Mountain Lion in July.
Apple has not removed the download entirely, however, as it is still
accessible via direct download (63.8 MB). It is unknown how long Apple will
continue hosting the download, but text strings found within the app
earlier this year suggest that the app itself will expire once OS X Mountain
Lion is released and Messages will be a Mountain Lion exclusive.
Apple announced yesterday that OS X Mountain Lion will launch in July and be
priced at $19.99 through the Mac App Store. Users of Snow Leopard and
Lion will be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion for the same price.
Users of the Messages beta for Lion have complained of a number of issues
including crashes and problems with syncing across devices, failure to send,
and disappearing messages. Many have been hoping for an update to address
some of these issues, but it appears that Apple is focusing its Messages
efforts on the final version it plans to include with OS X Mountain Lion. |
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