Re: Whats New in Snow Leopard

In article <kMWdndXfDOCnlJLXnZ2dnUVZ_hpi4p2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ZnU wrote:
In article <aRzPl.42089$v8.3684@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"mocassin joe" <jmocasanto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Mike" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347118,00.asp
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Mike
Here is the root of the problem;

from the article; (did you even bother to read it?)

" Microsoft releases the public betas in order to get feedback and
telemetry
from testers to improve the product. Apple, on the other hand, will drop
its
new OS down from heaven (or, rather, Cupertino), without soliciting a word
of feedback on in-development code from ordinary users."

IOW; you get what Jobs and Apple think you should get.
And you fools lap it up.

Apple uses its pool of registered developers to provide feedback. I'm
going to go out on a limb and say they probably get much more coherent
bug reports.

Yeah, right. They are developers, not users. That is not the
feedback they need.

Developers are users too, and they tend to be fairly demanding ones.
You're nuts if you don't think registered Apple developers regularly
install development operating systems on machines they use for things
other than compiling and testing software.

Wow, once again, the people here amaze me - the thought a public beta,
soliciting input from a wide cross-section of the user community, is
somehow considered a negative or not required.

I wouldn't consider it a negative thing, but if you have tens of
thousands of developers willing to test your stuff -- who actually know
how to write a useful bug report -- letting random members of the public
also test your stuff probably doesn't add that much.

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    ... of feedback on in-development code from ordinary users." ... you get what Jobs and Apple think you should get. ... Oh, you mean how Microsoft does things with, um, Vista? ... " Microsoft releases the public betas in order to get feedback and telemetry ...
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  • Re: Whats New in Snow Leopard
    ... " Microsoft releases the public betas in order to get feedback and telemetry ... you get what Jobs and Apple think you should get. ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • Re: Whats New in Snow Leopard
    ... of feedback on in-development code from ordinary users." ... you get what Jobs and Apple think you should get. ... Oh, you mean how Microsoft does things with, um, Vista? ... " Microsoft releases the public betas in order to get feedback and telemetry ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • Re: Whats New in Snow Leopard
    ... " Microsoft releases the public betas in order to get feedback and telemetry ... you get what Jobs and Apple think you should get. ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • Re: Whats New in Snow Leopard
    ... " Microsoft releases the public betas in order to get feedback and ... of feedback on in-development code from ordinary users." ... Apple uses its pool of registered developers to provide feedback. ... Developers are very good at criticizing someone else's work, usefully, ...
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