My thoughts were that either they are finding their stable beta pool
shrinking/insufficient to catch bugs but also possibly that they are
getting more/a steady flow of good bug reports from the rest of the
community (non-developers). Rather than create exceptions for
non-developers to add things (it's messy having a system that has
exceptions) they opened it up to anyone who can be bothered to do it -
thus retaining the good bug reporters.
I was asked years ago to be a beta tester for a well-known (ish) bit of
software just because I kept reporting them. I even got an honorary
mention atthe upgrade to OS X because I reported so many. I suspect I
was the only person with a cheap iBook with a small screen (high-powered
developers etc would only have decent kit) so I found loads of bugs
about the UI being crammed into a small space.
so maybe that kind of thing. especially (I'm speculating) Maps. It's
possible they get a ton of information from people outraged about errors
in that.
On 30 Apr 2014, at 22:03, Graham Perrin wrote:
OS X Beta Seed Program <https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/>
I'm curious, how do people feel about about this new program?
(Note, this is not an invitation to discuss the software itself – if
you're
enrolled, please respect the OS X Beta Seed and Confidentiality
Agreement.)
There'll be plenty of commentary elsewhere (under the article below,
for
example) but I'll be interested in the thoughts of this group.
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