{"id":8730,"date":"2014-04-22T17:34:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8730"},"modified":"2014-04-23T15:07:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T19:07:37","slug":"os-x-beta-seed-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/22\/os-x-beta-seed-program\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X Beta Seed Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2146568\/apple-launches-beta-seed-for-os-x-program-for-end-users.html\">Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2146568\/apple-launches-beta-seed-for-os-x-program-for-end-users.html\"><p>Ever dreamed of an opportunity to try out new versions of OS X before they&rsquo;re released, but without having to pony up the $99 to become a registered developer? Well, that opportunity&rsquo;s here: On Tuesday, Apple announced a new initiative, the <a href=\"http:\/\/appleseed.apple.com\/betaprogram\">OS X Beta Seed Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>You have to log in with your Apple ID and accept a confidentiality agreement, which prohibits you from discussing or publicly sharing any information about pre-release software with people who are not <em>also<\/em> using the pre-release software&mdash;according to the agreement, the company will likely provide discussion boards expressly for the purpose of discussing pre-release software.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even before this, I&rsquo;ve been seeing a much higher percentage of my customers using pre-release versions of Mac OS X than in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2014-04-23): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/apple-opens-os-x-beta-program-to-all\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/apple-opens-os-x-beta-program-to-all\/\"><p>Apple&rsquo;s opening up the OS X beta program is an odd step. They already don&rsquo;t fix many of the bugs that those with developer accounts report, so getting many more bug reports is unlikely to make a difference. While this is a good thing for users who are not developers, and who want access to OS X betas &#8211; journalists such as my colleagues and I will save $100 a year &#8211; I don&rsquo;t see how expanding beta access will improve anything. But this is a sign of the greater openness we&rsquo;ve seen since Tim Cook took over the company.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Moren: Ever dreamed of an opportunity to try out new versions of OS X before they&rsquo;re released, but without having to pony up the $99 to become a registered developer? Well, that opportunity&rsquo;s here: On Tuesday, Apple announced a new initiative, the OS X Beta Seed Program. [&#8230;] You have to log in with [&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":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","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":[38,30],"class_list":["post-8730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730","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=8730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8739,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions\/8739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}