{"id":30214,"date":"2020-09-23T16:50:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30214"},"modified":"2020-09-24T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T12:26:18","slug":"why-public-betas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/23\/why-public-betas\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Public Betas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2020\/09\/betas\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2020\/09\/betas\/\">\n<p>Of course, the reigning king of poor initial OS quality is iOS 13, whose many, many, many early releases would have been reminiscent of a silent movie comedy were it not for the loud groans coming from its users. But iOS 13 also had the great counter-example to public betas: the cursor\/pointer support in iOS 13.4. Here was a major update kept hidden in Cupertino until it was sprung on the world in late March, and it pretty much just worked right from the start.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Which raises the question: what is the point of the public beta program? Is it really intended to improve the quality of the released version? If so, why do we keep hearing of bugs that are reported but persist throughout the beta cycle? Whatever its original purpose, the public beta program is now a marketing tool&mdash;a way to get Apple enthusiasts hyped about the new releases and hyped to buy the new products that come out alongside the new software.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/15\/ios-14-shipping-tomorrow\/\">iOS 14 Shipping Tomorrow, Xcode 12 GM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/11\/mail-data-loss-in-macos-10-15\/\">Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/12\/feedback-assistant-replaces-bug-reporter\/\">Feedback Assistant Replaces Bug Reporter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/the-sad-state-of-logging-bugs-for-apple\/\">The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Drang: Of course, the reigning king of poor initial OS quality is iOS 13, whose many, many, many early releases would have been reminiscent of a silent movie comedy were it not for the loud groans coming from its users. But iOS 13 also had the great counter-example to public betas: the cursor\/pointer support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-09-23T20:50:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"d0eaaaf3-d9f7-403a-9025-712e980558c5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-09-24T12:26:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0Oqq89n3QDqQJXEumAVYxQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1143,44,31,1667,1837,30,1891],"class_list":["post-30214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-software-quality","tag-bugtracking","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-ios-14","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30222,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30214\/revisions\/30222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}