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Welcome to this, the Apple Insider Podcast, episode 162.

I'm Victor Marks and joining me is Mike Wirthley.

Hello everybody.

Welcome back back Mike.

Hi, how are you?

I'm amazing.

Now, I'm going to get right to the point here.

We've been talking about a bunch of things as we lead up to preparing to record this and one of the things we're talking about is the

Apple iOS betas. Now they've rolled out high Sierra betas and iOS and TVOS betas

and also watch S and T. V. O. S. Betas.

And you know, this is something that I know I'm using a lot of enthusiasm for in my voice as I speak,

but it's it's one of those progressions towards what we're going to get next.

And while there aren't any great release notes associated with these kinds of things,

we see those changes taking place, don't we?

Yeah, we're about halfway through the beta cycle.

One of the audio vendors said that

I. OS 11.3 was coming last week, but that was nonsense from the get-go.

We're on beta 4 right now of the entire run of operating systems. We probably I'm guessing we have three more just based on history it could go up to five it depends on exactly what Apple wants to do but as a reminder

Apple pre-announced excuse me pre-announced iOS I.

11.3 in a press release the same day the first beta came out and they said it would come in the spring so at the very

earliest we're looking at the 20th of this month right and the very latest is

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