Like I said, I haven’t signed up
Thats exactly what I am doing, thank you for reminding me
Absolutly, I never said that TR shouldn’t be doing beta testing, hell I’m running a beta test right now, it’s part of of software develpment, an important part, but …
… is because most people in this forum are not software developers (or testers) but they were sold a dream, they were sold a dream in a 2 hour announcment youtube stream, where the the world had changed, couching was dead, and if you aren’t on the AT closed beta , you’re missing out
When we do a closed (private) beta, like the one we are doing now (and we have to, like TR we need the data going through or ML) the client knows exactly what to expect, what could go wrong, what compensation they will get for taking part (usually take’s the form of not having to subscribe to that feature for x years once it goes live, and being assosiated with it’s development, or having some additional development done)
Like I said in my op, managing expections, and keeping the private (sorry closed) beta private, are important to the success of the product, like I said in my op there is a reason that companies don’t generally do there private beta so publicly
If 75% of this thread don’t know what I beta test is, and are clammering to get onto it, then I would argue that the issue is not that the users are ignorant of what a closed beta is, it more likely that the expectations have been incorrectly set
Like I said, I pay TR to make me faster, and not to do their beta testing (for free), I don’t see what the issue with that is, if people want the “badge of honor” for being on the beta test program so be it
As the the clammering to be on the beta test shows it’s great, well people queue out side the apple store before the reviews, not because the product is great (and I’m not say they/aren’t, just commenting on why people queue), becuase they are being told that’s what they want, and the dream is to have the latest and greatest, regardless if they need it or if it’s better (for them, and has AT been proven to make anybody faster?) than the one that they already have, in my op, that is some of what is going on here
Again I have no problem with TR, beta tests, just interested in the whole thing from a professional point of view, as to if expectation have been set correctly, my none desire to be part of the AT beta, does not come from the communication from TR (the launch stream, sold it as near finished product) but from the users posting about the private (sorry closed) beta in a public forum, means that I know that it won’t work how I want to use TR, and therefore it isn’t worth me being part of the beta
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