14 DAY TRIAL // Apple may be releasing OS X 10.7.1 to the public in a matter of days, with developer signaling that version 10.7.2 is already being made available for download through the iCloud for Lion beta section.
People in a position to know are signaling that a combo Lion update labeled Build 11C26 is now available for download.
Unlike all previous OS X seeds, Mac OS X 10.7.2 is being distributed through the iCloud for Lion beta channel.
It’s a combo update required to test Apple’s suite of web services set to make a public debut this fall.
“You must install OS X Lion 10.7.2 in order to use iCloud for OS X Lion beta 5,” Apple tells those enrolled with its $99-a-year developer program.
“This pre-release version of OS X Lion is being provided solely for testing iCloud. (Mac Developer Program membership is required),” reads Apple’s note to developers.
Also offered through the same channel is iCloud the iCloud Add-on installer for OS X Lion which installs iCloud Beta 5.
Earlier this week, Apple rolled out iOS 5 Beta 4, a new test build of the company’s mobile operating system for developers to play around with.
Just like iCloud, iOS 5 will be available publicly this fall.
Both OS X Lion and iOS 5 are tightly integrated with iCloud, “a breakthrough set of free new cloud services that work seamlessly with applications on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and automatically and wirelessly push it to all your devices,” as Apple itself puts it.
iCloud will replace services like Dropbox on many users’ computers as it wirelessly syncs pretty much every type of file on all of a user’s devices almost instantly whenever anything changes on one of them.